I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

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.

The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can’t make smooth, no matter how hard you try.

To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.

Daily life.The sacred time of man on earth.

I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.

My brain said no. But my heart!

The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore.

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

There's a path from your HEART to mine.

I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.