A good player is always lucky.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

In the end we will realise that we only came to earth to love

Boredom is peace misunderstood.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.

I've never had a dream go this far, so I can't really say it's a dream come true.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

One should never create tension between one's footwear.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.