The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

The hardest game to win is a won game

Without error there can be no brilliancy

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

Who am I to judge another when I myself walk as an imperfect man.

Contentment is the only real wealth

Things that are truly innocent don’t need to be labelled as such.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.