Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.