Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

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.

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.

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

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.

For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change.

The ideal is the enemy of the real.

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.