Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

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.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we've labeled and drugged them.

It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.

If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

Don't let your imagination take you by surprise.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

Love is the mystery of water and a star.

If you refuse to set a bold goal for your financial future, you're really setting a goal anyway: To keep things the way they are.