A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

It isn't sacrifice if you love what you're doing.

Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.

There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavour to make it poetic.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.