The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.

ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

I am still young and being the [England] squad is really good for me although I've still got a lot to learn.

Capability means imagination.

I take the paraglider to the mountain or I roll Daisy out of her hangar and I pick the prettiest part of the sky and I melt into the wing and then into the air, till I'm just soul on a sunbeam.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.