Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

You say to me-ward's your affection's strong Pray love me little so you love me long.

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving.

How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren't doing enough asking.

That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it.

The people who truly know me know what I'm like. There have been people who try to say things that aren't fair, and I check them. And then they don't like me because I checked them.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.