I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Henry Ward Beecher

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Nigel Short

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

Emanuel Cleaver

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

John Green

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Gore Vidal

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

Henry Miller

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Heraclitus

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

Tony Visconti

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

Christopher Hitchens

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Jane Addams

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld