For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

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.

Endure pain to turn it into your power.

If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.