No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

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.

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have called him.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card.

I think that, for sure, we as women should try and realize that it's more about having someone to share.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

There's no doubt 'normal' is changing - spring actually came a month early in Alaska, for example, and we had to stop filming.

Prosthetic head is better than no head in the morning.