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

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.

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.

You have every right to be free, Miss Langdon. No one is denying you that. But freedom is only valuable if you use your freedom wisely.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.

Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

Two Romans seem to deliver no contest. Send three, so that I may deliver proper tribute!

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.