You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Time trouble is blunder time.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

The first and most important person you must believe in is yourself.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

I do what I do and u do Wat u can do about it

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?

But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.