Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.

I wish you a blessed beautiful Christmas with the fullness of grace.

All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

I would spend some of it. I would help a lot of people around me. I will change a lot of people's lives around me, honestly.

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed.

Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.

People have one thing in common; they are all different.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.