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.

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 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.

Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

We are what we pretend to be.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.