In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level

There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.

Never attempt to accelerate your progress

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

The hardest thing in comedy is to have the biggest laugh at the end, and it’s the most satisfying thing.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.