Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

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.

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.

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.

Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...

The calm serenity of the breeze as it blows across the ocean releases the tangled web within my mind.

Few tears are just the memoirs of indication, what you will go through in near future...

I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip