Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.

Never, ever lose hope. We must not lose hope.

I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

I was 'attitude' in this place before it was a catchphrase!

Some of the most challenging moves towards health are made with the simplest of steps and that is why I wrote The Start Here Diet.