I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

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.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when he jumped up, his head hit the switch.

I guess the worst thing you feel in a fight is being out of shape.

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality. It's part of my job.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.