I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

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

Let it go and live in the moment with joy.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

These hoes ain't loyal

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.