"It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses."

“And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.”

“It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.”

“If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.”

Source : Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

“I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.”

“What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.”

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

Source : Attributed in "Words of Wisdom" edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, (p. 58), 1990.

“I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.”

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

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”