So, if I had a mentor, it was Johnny Moss.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

May the flop be with you.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

I don't want to be a tree

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.