Everyone is concerned about his niche, his name, and wants to adapt the concept to so-called national characteristics. But at the end of the day, it's all the same.

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.

Find Meaning, Find Yourself.

If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside.”~ Grace Madison, PhD.

Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.