It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

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.

A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.

Dragons are fire made flesh.

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world