Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

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.

Give sorrow words

Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

I think there is a danger there of being mean to people and humiliating people and embarrassing people just because it might get you ratings. It is a disturbing trend.

I just felt that it was my responsibility, since so many people had taken the time to help me along, to do the same for others.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.