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

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.

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.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

Perception starts with the eye.

Is it against the law to kill a reporter?

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.