The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

When nobody takes a responsibility it's yours.

Dare to take chances

A good artist must be good at many things.

The time we were together, we were the best we can be for each other.

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are.

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.