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

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.

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

A love-story is a book to be read by everyone whose heart beats for someone!

At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

When your confidence goes up, your competence goes up the same time.