[D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.

Look beyond yourself.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind

How has Paul kept his wonder? He never forgot who he had been.

I spent many a charming evening talking and playing with Albertine, but none so sweet as when I was watching her sleep.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.