It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

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.

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.

Putin is like Al Capone.

Live for great hope and the beauty of dreams.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.

I watched Elvis Presley become - I listened to Elvis Presley. I watched Chuck Berry become. I listened to Little Richard. I heard that music, and it was part of my upbringing.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

I am still alive then. That may come in useful.