The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

A good player is always lucky.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger

He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing.

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.

We live in a world of cause and effect.