"Always remember, your focus determines your reality"
—Qui-Gon Jinn

"In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80%. What percentage of the points do you think I won in those matches? Only 54%."
—Roger Federer

"I will take the ring ... though I do not know the way"
—Frodo

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
—John Stienbeck

"But if glory makes you happy, why are you so broken up?"
—Porter Robinson

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same."
—Richard Kipling

"Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death."
—Neil Postman

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools then our tools shape us."
—Marshall Mcluhan

"People change their beliefs like they change their clothes. In private."
—Mom

"Don't do what you love, love what you do."
—Dad

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."
—CS Lewis

"There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship."
—David Foster Wallace

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money."
—Nat Friedman

"Nothing's really happened like I thought it would"
—Bon Iver