The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.

There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.

All that a child needs is great love.

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

The human heart is like the reflection on the water's surface. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels.

Wisdom of the Ages: "New Year" For a kid, the ultimate source of confusion. They say it's a new year, but after the break, you realize you are still in the same class, with the same lousy people.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.