Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry.""Right, " Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.