No one ever won a game by resigning.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

When you listen to good music in the morning makes a good day.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.

Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

As an actor who's starting out, you can't say, "Hey, I'm too good for this." You gotta do it, because people see you, your name gets around, and it has a cumulative effect.

INTO THE WILD was a lot of fun, but challenging, 'cause you can get lost in the movement.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -