In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

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.

He hated when his own advice applied to himself.

In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.

React with how can I help you versus how can I hurt you.

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.