"Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome."

“Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move).”

“The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.”

“Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?”

“If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.”

Source : Michael Muhammad Knight (2004). “The Taqwacores”, p.38, Autonomedia

“I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.”

Source : "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

“People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.”

Source : "Estelle Getty, ‘Golden Girls’ Matriarch, Dies at 84". The New York Times, July 23, 2008.

“I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect”

Source : "Coleman's short 'n' sweet speech rings true" by Tim Sullivan, legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 1, 2005.

“The perpetual struggle for room and food.”