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.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

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.

Putin is like Al Capone.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

From the time I wake up until the time I go to bed, music is unfortunately on my mind, on my stereo, or I'm making it or talking about it.

George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn’t going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

Everyone is equal - a strange Swedish mentality.