In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Chess is a test of wills.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

I was unlucky, like my country.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

George Jones was my all time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.