"To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan."

“It’s because your subconscious finds my subconscious irresistible.”

“I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.”

“Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!”

Source : Herbert Barrows, Gordon Norton Ray, John Ciardi (1959). “An Introduction to Literature: How does a poem mean? By J. Ciardi”

“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.”

“Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.”

“Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.”

Source : "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage". Statement prepared for court, www.npr.org. February 16, 2012.

“The best words for resolving a disagreement are, "I could be wrong; I often am." It's true.”

“What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.”

Source : C.S. Friedman (2008). “Feast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogy”, p.28, Penguin