During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

The goals made such a difference to the way this game went

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

I am carried in my shadow like a violin in its black case