As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

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.

Connor is my friend... I've hacked. Which one came first?

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

For gods' sake, Strider," Torin snapped. "Open your mouth and form some words. While you're at it, stop staring at the angel like he's a tasty treat.

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.