We need strong personalities and only one world champion to attract sponsors.

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.

For most vampires, it's an automatic response - scent blood, fangs drop.

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.

Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it!

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.

The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?

What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.