No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

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 couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."pg 338

The longest day is soon ended.

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

At Arcueil ... I dined in distinguished company... There was a lot of very interesting discussion. It is these gatherings which are the joy of life.

I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.