Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

120 million of us place the big bang 2, 500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

The world is not to be run by miracles but by principles.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

Nature is none other than God in all things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in all things.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.