The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately

When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at issue, but he himself is about as fertile as a woman who has been sterilized is.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

Success can be elusive

Embrace truth and peace as you breathe the joyful heights of inner fulfilling serenity.

What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

Lies come from fear, from cowardice.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.