Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.

Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.

The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a given time and place.

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life.

I'd always thought I was pretty healthy and I always thought I had worked hard in the gym and it turns out that what I thought was hard, in Catwoman's world, is actually light to moderate.

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

The moment you get pregnant, you're tortured by the fear of not doing it well. But I feel at peace with that right now.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.