“Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.”

“God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

“It is normal to feel alone at the start of any journey. It’s the people who you meet along your travels that make the trip more interesting.”

“I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.”

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“I argue that it's appropriate for people to pursue their profit motive in business. If you want to change that, you're going against human nature. But when it comes to setting the rules or creating the institutions, then you should have the general interest at heart, even if it conflicts with your personal interest.”

“…my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.”

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

“A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men — and people in general.”