Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.

Never bet against a cat.

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

You can take a kid out of Rosengård, but you can never take Rosengård out of that kid