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

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.

I've never had to ask a thing from you, as everything you've ever fed my soul was love.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it "Italy."

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

I love seeing new places and meeting new people. I'm sort of addicted to traveling.

I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.