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.

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.

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

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.

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

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I've never been overseas. I can only imagine what that's like.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.