Chess is a test of wills.

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

I was unlucky, like my country.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you.

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.

There is an easy way to measure our inner levels of abjectness and friendliness to ourselves: we should examine how well we response to noise.

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.