The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good.

Never argue at the dinner table for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.

Hardships poverty and want are the best incentives and the best foundation for the success of man.

I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that the monsters under the bed were real and would gut you.

Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.