Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

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.

Nothing makes a man better than to forgive his faults.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization.

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

Hello, lovely. You're as pretty as pretty today.

Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for all eternity.

How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!