"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."

"The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe."