I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

This book is dedicated to all the students I've known over the years who've taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.

We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!

Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.