The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

There are worse places to be than on your own.

My favorite cut is probably "Drink of Choice," and it was done by Bryan Michael Cox, it's a metaphorical type song, about a woman being a drink. I'll let your mind wander with that one.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

the hope that there she would manage to regain her happiness made her fearless

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.