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

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.

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.

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.

The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Wherever is your heart I call home.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

"Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.