I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

The goal of formal education has always been to produce people who could continue to learn on their own.

The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

I try to win every tournament.

My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way.