We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.

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.

The breath of being is been able to share your bread.

One of the greatest keys to happiness is learning how to accept reality while stretching forth to create a new one.

Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.

Nothing is determined by fate. We create our own fate.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.