“Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.”

“The fiercely competitive are fierce because they don’t see themselves as competitive.”

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.”

“ --- she says it’s a tradition --- which must mean all those things people do that they don’t know why they do ‘em.”from the novella Christopher O’Connor’s Romances”

“It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.”

“Everyone is a loser. Winners are just losers with more patience.”

“The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.”