It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

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

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.

A man must be himself or nothing!

One shot. That was all you got. - Isaac

In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.

I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.

Black widows may be powerful predators, but every predator is somebody else's prey.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.