It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

As my hair fell free, Cortez entwined his fingers in it and kissed me even harder. Then he slipped one hand from my hair and snapped his fingers over our heads. The lights went out.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

I will never brag about myself, but my family, I can go on forever.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

When I stripped myself completely of pressure and thoughts of sponsors and realized I only love to climb, that's the day I did it.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.