One Cannot Play Chess If One Becomes Aware Of The Pieces As Living Souls And Of The Fact That The Whites And The Blacks Have More In Common With Each Other Than With The Players.

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience.
  But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey...
• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined.
  .. to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories....
• Each day, enough people to fill St. Louis, Missouri, leave their homes to go to a land other than the one in which they are currently living.
  This is an excellent opportunity for those who handle baggage to lose a lot more than they are doing....
• Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
  much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
• How many chess grandmasters -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  21. One to have the idea, and a whole load more to do all the analysis....
• If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
  I would relax, I would limber up, I would be sillier than I have been this trip....
• Where true love has found a home, every new hear forms one more ring around the hearts of those who love each other, so that in the end they cannot live apart.
  -- Julius Stinde...
• To those who are awake, there is one ordered universe common to all, whereas in sleep each man turns away from this world to one of his own.
  -- Heraclitu...
• You know the type.