The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)