When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.

There is power within great sacrifice, within noble deeds. There are moments... brief, shining moments when the impossible becomes possible.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Man was not made for himself alone

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.