I'm looking forward to the day when my country is saved - and the current winner becomes a loser.

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.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips...I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.

I've never done anything particularly scandalous.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

I will believe in the 500-channel world only when I see it.