Many gamblers think they're being singled out by fate as a target for cruel jokes. They feel they alone in all the universe are being tortured, experimented upon by some unknown force.

Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.

If you speak the truth, you spoil the game.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

You win some, you lose some, and you keep it to yourself.

As long as people allow themselves to be shocked, outraged or disgusted, there will be those who see that this happens, just so they can watch.

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

I am a lucky player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.

In the beginning, everything was even money.

False hope is sometimes much worse and sometimes much better than no hope.

It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.

I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.

I'd rather live one day as a lionthan live a hundred years as a sheepI'd rather reign in Hell than serve in Heavenlive my dream out in reality and not in my dreams

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The truth is forced upon us very quickly by a foe.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

He is the creator, and sustainer and Lord of all things and He is worthy of your honor and obedience.

Love is the goal, life is the journey.

History is a relay of revolutions.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.