The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

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.

Believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

My policy is to have no policy.

Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.