I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries with close ties to Russia.

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.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.