Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

The hardest game to win is a won game

Without error there can be no brilliancy

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

The need is what is necessary.

First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.

You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

My best idea was to not accept my wife's negative reaction when I asked her to marry me.