Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Putin is like Al Capone.

Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".

The process of life, towards the whole truth can only be covered, by absolutely dropping yourself. You can only merge into the whole, if you prepare to lose yourself.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Life is only worth-while through the eyes of a believer.

Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

I think politicians sometimes badly underestimate the true feelings that Americans have for the land.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.