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

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

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.

I don't study; I create.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Sometimes life appears one way, but what matters is how you internalize life and its lessons.

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

I don't like hassles. But I love Christmas because it reminds us how "God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God" (Rom. 8:28 NLT).

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.