A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.

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.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

This is the reality, that these people share the same problems as the rest of us and that those problems can be overcome.

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

The Sacraments are Jesus Christ’s presence in us. So it is important for us to go to Confession and receive Holy Communion.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!