Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

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.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me.

I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.