Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

Enlightenment is light.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

Who? God. What? He loves you. Where? Everywhere. When? Always, forever, without ceasing. How? Totally, completely. Why? Because you are His child!

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.