The most hopeful approach to peace in Ukraine is the Minsk Agreement, which includes Moscow.

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.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

SHINee are 'transformers' because we are constantly changing!

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.