Robert Fischer is a law unto himself

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.

Being normal?1 I have never had this experience.

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

I'm a really good person. I'm down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I'm just like everybody else.

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect. It's the principle of it.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.