The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

I was seduced by the idea that even in the dark, we are still as complex and detailed as we are in the light.

Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

Every experience is enduring adventure.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.