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.

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.

Putin is like Al Capone.

All the bad things happen to us when we are alone.

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.