Chess will always be the master of us all.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.