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

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.

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

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Life is nether a play nor a party. But the love of prayer.

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Mostly [Eva Braun criticize Adolf Hitler] about his clothes, the cut and the fit of his clothes. This was an ongoing issue between them.

Tears are not arguments.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.