A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

Be merciful until you can't be.Until you feel your heart begin to harden into a bullet.Then use that bullet.

A hand held tightly, never to really let go.Fills up life around you, for the comforts within our soul.

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even.