The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

Let's recreate the equivalent of the Met Ball in Europe and, rather than for the museum, give the money to environmental causes.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

I get emotional when young people get nostalgic about my work. That's why it's called nostalgia. Sometimes I even cry.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.