"The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop."
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
Eleanor Roosevelt on Strength"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche on Strength"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller on Strength"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
John F. Kennedy on Strength"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway on Strength"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."
"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this."
"For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."
"I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation."
"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."