"This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve."

“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.15, Courier Corporation

“Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.”

“First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.”

Source : "Franco-Asian exotica on Singapore skyline". Interview with Daniel Magnowski, www.reuters.com. August 23, 2011.

“For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.”

“Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.”

“The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.”

“Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.”

“So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.”