I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

Waiting is often the best part of the story, " he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

[On Nancy Reagan:] At one photo op press conference, she toured a crack house and decried how awful it was, yet one suspected that for our Drug Czarina it had something to do with a plaid couch.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.

When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.