In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

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.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

When I hear myself, I don't know how I sound.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn’t get published any other way.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

Once you reach a certain age, you're either slowly dying or slowly being reborn. I want to choose the latter.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

I love to hit people. I love to.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.