I don't really like discussions about a supposed Russian national character.

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.

Hope is only the love of life.

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

age is a terrible theif

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

I always said I was determined to own a truly global brand. I didn't buy Jimmy Choo just to have a couple of shoe shops in London, did I?

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.