I only think well when my mind is calm.

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

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.

I think the comfort of sneakers is really coming back. Everybody wants a cool pair of shoes, but they want to be comfortable.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.