I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

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.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.

I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.