Chess is not for timid souls.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

If I'm president, we will win on everything we do.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.