Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.

What you did was not only very kind, but brave and honorable.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

civilization is a transient sickness.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.