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

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 '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.

The act of making a decision can propel you along for a while, even if you never do anything.

A good idea isn't good until you consider the idea as a good

If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.

Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right.

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha.

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.

The world changes - circumstances change, we change - but God's Word never changes