It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

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.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.