“I don't play to lose, only to win or learn. Mostly learn.”

“I'm the biggest nerd you'd want to meet. There are bigger, but you don't want to meet them.”

“But for life's little defeats and indignities, I would be happy, content and completely average.”

“You may find that knowledge is not so great a thing as belief or hope.”

“Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.”

“…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)”

“Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all." (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)”