In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

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.

so many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred

Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about ‘arriving, ’ but about being.

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.