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

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!

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

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.

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.

The love for God is the love to protect the environment.

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am alone and they are everyone, " I thought–and pondered.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

I don't know my natural hair colour. I haven't seen it for a while.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.