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

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.

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.

To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back.

I've a very simple yet powerful present for you the one reading this. - I LOVE YOU.

The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently, regardless of what it looks like to others.

More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.

It Is Impossible For Anyone To Live Independently Of The Kingdom Of God And Be Truly Happy

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Asked about Donald Trump, [Pope] Francis said a person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian, a remark you might remember that Trump described as disgraceful.