An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Chess is a test of wills.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

I was unlucky, like my country.

Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?