It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Time trouble is blunder time.

If you want to love God, love the less-fortunate one. If you want to see God, look through the eyes of a hungry child.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

I turn my back on him as he goes, and settle myself in the parlor, and touch Ma's piano.My fingers leave sighsin the dust.

The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You’re flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.

Forget about style; worry about results.

Class is more important than a game.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.