"Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly."

“Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.”

Source : Raymond Aron (2011). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

“The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2003). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.300, Courier Corporation

“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”

“Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else, I think it's the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.”

“The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.”

“I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman”