A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

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

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

I enjoy my life very much.

You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.