One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

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.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

It does not take the striking pose of a high-fashion model or the strict stance of someone in uniform to earn respect and admiration.

We're unique in ways that can't be imagined, but you'll never know until you rid yourself of comparison.

The Berglunds were the super-guilty sort of liberals who needed to forgive everybody so their own good fortune could be forgiven

If there seems no answers then create and apply them.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very sobering for everybody. I don't take this lightly at all not at all.