Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.

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.

When you take your belief for granted, failure takes you for rides.

Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest of my life.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.