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)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It’s the transition that’s troublesome. (Isaac Asimov)