To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

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

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.

Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.

As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

I'm an optimist at heart.

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.