Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

Inconceivable!""You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Nostalgia, she knew, has the power to make you smile and also to make you cry.

if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others—choose your master.

If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented

I guess I'm a workaholic!

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

Umm thanks for the phone. I think I already broke it.

I took LSD and listened to Coltrane a lot; a lot of people did.

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.