Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

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.

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

There is far more spiritual potential within than most people realize. The potential is so great that to define it in words would be impossible.

We have the ability to become far more powerful and happy and healthy than we ever dreamed possible. At any age.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

The wonder of Christmas is that the God Who lived with us can now live within us.

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.