My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!

In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Modesty and chastity are twins

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

I don't think I need too much help. I think my head's on pretty straight, and I'm pretty realistic about things. I'm very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place.