The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

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.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.

He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.

The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won