I keep forcing, I keep learning new things in the game, and so far I have been taking challenges as they come.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

Jesus first, others next, and yourself last spells J-O-Y.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

The cat in gloves catches no mice.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.

Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions.