Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Just because you lose doesn't mean you're a loser, and champions don't quit.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.

The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

I would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.