"If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think."

“The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time”

“Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.”

Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

“Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.”

“Sports and politics don't mix.”

“It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada... The rest just quits!”

“I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.”

“The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation.”

Source : "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.

“Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.”