A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.

You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.

The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.

Money has to serve, not to rule!

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

Today I saw a car crush my little dog under it's wheel.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.