Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

Once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived... The amount of points that can be gained (and saved) by correct endgame play is enormous, yet often underestimated.

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.

We spend so much time creating a façade of what we want to project to the world, we almost forget what we ourselves are truly about in the process.

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.