Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

Words without deeds are worthless.

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.