You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Chess will always be the master of us all.