It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I don't study; I create.

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

...But we also believe that part of our mission in life is to find our bliss and follow it. Life is a precious and delicate gift. How much of that gift do we squander out of fear?

To think twice is quite enough.

This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes to get a beer.

If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

I'm primarily just an investor.