As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

Human nature is all alike.

When you invest your time, you are pouring your life into others.

Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.

Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.