Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Well done is better than well said.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you think you can do it, you can.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.