There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

A good player is always lucky.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

The most essential point is lowliness.

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

You can't turn love on and off like a faucet.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

I remember my friends at primary and secondary school admiring my work and even paying me money for some of my pieces.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.