I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.

Wherever you are, be there with love.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God.

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.