If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

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.

Your thought should be creative and not destructive

God will make straight our paths.

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

The price of civilization is instinctual renunciation.

You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.