One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

Until you make peace with who you are you'll never be content with what you have.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.