In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

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.

Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.

The dead shouldn’t cry, not even the lesser dead.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

I love being physical and acting at the same time.

Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

We are not only celebrating International Yoga day, we are training the human mind to begin a new era of peace, Sadbhavana.

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.