As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory

Imagination is a sacred intuition.

Nothing worth doing's ever easy.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Most of the things that go wrongin life don’t have a lasting impact.Remind yourself that if it won’tmatter in ten years’ time, it doesn’t matter today.

If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Im more keen on the person Im involved with showing me his commitment rather than going through a marriage to display commitment to the world.

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies.

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.