The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

Every Chess master was once a beginner

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

Chess is not for the timid.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.