Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

A good player is always lucky.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire.

The hour on Sunday can be a time of wonder, a time of transformation, maybe even a time of awe.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

Dennis Wise, Vinnie Jones and John Fashanu must be turning in their graves

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

Love should be as natural as living and breathing.

Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.