Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you
The first hundred years are the hardest.
There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world.
The relationship I have with my mother now, and photographing her in front of the grave, it opens up discussions, and dealings with the conversations with my mother about, when I was little, how we lived and about suicide and talking about it, so it's something positive, it brought us more together, because people might never discuss that. Some families never go near certain subjects because it's too hurtful or too close or too dangerous. But within doing these photographs, I also wanted to open up a conversation with her about certain things about life.
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.