To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Only memories have a future.

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!

He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

When the enemy of my enemy is willing to use plasma weapons inside a hotel, I think I can do better than stupid aphorisms, General.-Captain Kevyn Andreyasn

Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

It’s only words… unless they’re true.

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything.

An aphorism needn’t be true, but it should sound true.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

If I may paraphrase Hobbes’s well-known aphorism, I would say that ‘books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about...

There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

Laughter is the antidote to existential pain

Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.

The only way to fight nostalgia is to listen to somebody else’s nostalgia

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

On ne peut pas tout avoir. Et puis d’abord où le mettrait-on?