The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

The threat is stronger than the execution.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win.

How can I lose to such an idiot?

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.

When I first heard your voice, my heart leapt in my chest as if it recognized you as its owner from another lifetime.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

I was born to be champion of the world

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.