Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

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.

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I like to correct the tests.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass

Without work all life goes rotten.

Shooting someone point blank still generates an explosion out of the end of a gun, even if the projectile is somehow ineffective.

Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.

At this moment, God is watching your life and at some point in this trial, He will say enough. You don't need to falter.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.