I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.

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.

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it.

And you… do you know what you are?”“Stupid?”“Beautiful, ” he says, his face turning red.

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

I've never done anything deliberately; I just speak my mind, and that is what I consistently do and will always do in any way shape or form that I can.

The world is terrified of joyful women. Make a stand. Be one anyway.

At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".