The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

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.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

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.

Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

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

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.