I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

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.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, ' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.