On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

The hardest game to win is a won game

Without error there can be no brilliancy

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul, shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

Just like Brad Pitt and what's her name!

This country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Conquered people tend to be witty.