Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

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.

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium."(After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol, sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

I am a whole lot of trouble.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.