... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

Haste, the great enemy.

We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

Its nice to have proper film fans respecting and appreciating your work.

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

You don't have to show people how successful you are.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.