Each victory pulls the victor down slightly and makes it harder to put in maximum effort to improve further. — Garry Kasparov

Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.

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

Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund.