I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

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.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.

Books were my escape, they transported me to other worlds without step-mothers.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

Greater is our terror of the unknown.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked