The move is there, but you must see it.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

Education is meant to increase the confidence of a person to face the world.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.