“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”

“The person who knows ‘how’ will always have a job. The person who knows ‘why’ will always be his boss.”

“Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.”

“there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it”

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

“I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.”