It is better to be a lender than a spender.
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
Blunders rarely travel alone.
I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.
When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.
Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.
Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples.
All that you've loved is all you own