I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.