Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control.

A Muslim just follows Allah. Sunni-Shiah? That's farga, the groups—Allah discourages this in the Quran, you know, never ever form the groups.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

If we possess nothing, God will allow us to have plenty.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?