The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

Time trouble is blunder time.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

It's not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it's the most patriotic thing we can do.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.

I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

Stillness overcomes heat.

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.