He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.