Each victory pulls the victor down slightly and makes it harder to put — Garry Kasparov

"Having spent a lifetime analyzing the game of chess and comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, Ive often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind, and are then refined and improved by experience."

"If youre already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it."

"Its not common, in our age, for someone to retire while still at the top, but Im a man who needs a goal, and who wants to make a difference."

"Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live."

"This is not chess. This is not a battle between opposite colors, but of opposite values. Freedom, life and love versus tyranny, death and hatred. This is not chess. But sometimes things are black and white. Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe. Or you lose it. This is not chess. There are no draws, no compromises in our battle with true evil. Its win or lose. And so we must fight. And so we must win. Slava Ukraini! Glory to Ukraine. Glory to freedom."

"Great leaders are formed only by taking on great challenges."