My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

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

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

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.

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.

it is easier to induce national governments to discriminate against foreign producers than to defend the interests of domestic consumers

My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.

The poor always ye have with you.

There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.

The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.

To sit through a film where you're just unmotivated to be interested in a character is probably the worst thing that could ever happen.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.