Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

I'm just surrounded by awesome funny folks and really creative people. I'm learning, every day. There's not a day that I step on set that I don't have fun. It's a pretty good deal.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.