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.

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.

When you get kicked in the teeth, chew on it: don't bite back.

Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Everyone's a little nothing.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.