Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

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

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

The Bible teaches whether we are saved or lost, there is an everlasting existence of the soul.

People are your responsibility and character is the hidden powers that cause the miracle people

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger and a mental willingness to endure it.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I dont even know why - suddenly straight.

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.