Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

A man is known by the books he reads.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

Bernie Sanders is usually speaking to the converted. He fires them up. It's a completely different style of campaigning that he's allergic to.