When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

The hardest game to win is a won game

Without error there can be no brilliancy

I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

I just finished reading the Koran, and there's nothing in there I didn't hear in Sunday school.