I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws.
Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect.
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
Go look at what any liberal says about anybody they disagree with, and especially conservatives, the first thing you're gonna hear them talk about is hate, too much hate. Then you'll hear racist, and then bigoted, and automatically homophobic, intolerant. Just go down the list. And they all believe it about any conservative alive. And, in many of their cases, about any Republican alive.
I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.
An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.
What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.