All Chess players should have a hobby

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

The nation doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

If you want to find out what the future of the Republican Party is if Hillary Clinton wins, take a look at California.