"A rich man's joke is always funny."

“The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors

“If you substitute ***** for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.”

“I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.”

“Compete with yourself, not with others.”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.163, Penguin

“But what is art other than revealing human nature?”

“We had a wonderful department that scouted out new music. It was beneficial to Rolling Stone, because I would come back and say, "You have to hear this, you have to hear that," and I found a lot of bands to feature, emerging bands. It [ended up being] symbiotic.”

“One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.”

“We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights.”