If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.

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.

How lonely it is!To be drowning, in a placewhere everyone can swim.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.