Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

A winner fulfills his contract with the world and with himself. That is, he sets out to do something, says that he is committed to doing it, and in the long run does it.