Combinations with a queen sacrifice are among the most striking and memorable.

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.

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

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.

Me and Katy look adorkable in extraterrestrialhighway shirts. You would just look stupid. You can thank me later.

An inspired life is spontaneous. There is no fear

Life is nothing but an opportunity to love.

There are pieces of you that will always be with me.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods they have not forgotten this.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.

When you’re truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.