Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.