As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I don't study; I create.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me

You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.

If there's somebody that I love that's in my life, I don't necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they've made to continue to love them and participate in important events.

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.