An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

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

My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon.In the sky between them, there I am.Cristen Rodgers

Intelligent men never do a business

Beauty is only skin deep but evil cuts straight through the soul.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.