Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.

We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today.

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot.

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Just because it's true, doesn't mean it's believable or interesting.

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.