Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.

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.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

If the Lord calls you, He will equip you for the task He wants you to fulfill