My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Time trouble is blunder time.

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.

My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.

Maybe the universe will get tired of me.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

The people need poetry that will be their own secret To keep them awake forever, And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.