A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

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.

A good player is always lucky.

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.

When you change your thinking, you change the world.

Have you ever felt so full of thoughts you think you could burst?

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

It would be easier to get a computer to cry than to get Estonians to share their innermost feelings.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.