Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

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.

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

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.

Maturity is when you can understand someone's silences and the pauses between those silences...

Here’s the inevitable truth: our hearts will always find something to worship, and that will motivate how we live.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

To love is everything: love is God.

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

He who gives money gives some, he who gives time gives more, and he who gives of himself gives all.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.