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.

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.

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.

Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

I know you [Donald Trump] live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.

I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.