If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

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.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

Censorship, telling people how to live their lives I completely disagree with.