When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.