“Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. ”

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

“In a way, Nick had been right: We all got to be winners sometimes. But what he didn't understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Because you can't have one without the other.”

“The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't.”

“The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do.”