I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.
We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.
When people show me pictures of their kids, it's okay. But when I give them a picture of me, to show to their kids, I'm weird. What kind of one way street is that?
Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.
One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.