Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

The world within you is of greater consequence than the world around you.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.

A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

If no one knows you, then you are no one.

It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.