Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The magic gets lost in translation.

That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials.

Christian Bale has a kind of genetically engineered handsomeness that's perfect for [John Preston]. He's also a better actor than he ever gets credit for being.

I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

There are always choices in life. People are going to pull you in all directions. Where you end up is a direct result of how wise your decisions are.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.