Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Time trouble is blunder time.

my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Would you trust him with your life, Halt?" Gilan interrupted, and Halt looked up at him. "Yes," he said quietly. Gilan patted his shoulder once more. "Then trust him with his own," he said simply.

I like to go to the clubs. As long as the environment permits, and it's not too knuckleheadish, I'm there, I go to the club. Because that's where you get inspiration from.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.