I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Stand somewhere on the character of God, and you will see the impossibles becoming possibles

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.

Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be.

I don't look like most women in the industry.

My father said he did have the mathematics of mind physics, or the physics of consciousness.

Don't back off on traditional values. It's important to show respect and tolerance for others, but they must show the same respect for your values. Tolerance is a two-way street.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.