I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

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.

Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger"."That is because you are older, little one" answered he."Not because you are?""I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger".

You don't get happiness from success. You get success from happiness.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

How can a president not be an actor?

Anthroposophy is not a game, nor just a theory; it is a task that must be faced for the sake of human evolution.