Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

Defeat the warriors of patience and time with Cosmic Ordering.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.

Reading like prayer remains one of our few private acts.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.