I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

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.

I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

If I stay much longer, I think I will have fallen in love with you.

Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up your interests.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.

When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.