To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.

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.

An image pops into my head of Gabriel Storm in my bed, his golden skin sheened with sweat while I ride him to paradise. Oh. My. God. Where did that come from? I’ve sworn to stay away from men.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

​When suddenly you find yourself on the wrong highway, perhaps it's time for a new job, or some new friends. It's your life - live it.

Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.