What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

When you see a good move, sit on your hands and see if you can find a better one.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls

I know they were mean to me and to you, but helping them now is the right thing to do.

After paying for the wedding about all a father has left to give away is the bride.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.