"We don't care about going 2-0, 3-0, or 4-0. Our first main objective is to go 1-0. That's the only thing we care about. That's the main focus."

“Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.”

“If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.”

Source : "Chris Vance Talks TRANSPORTER: THE SERIES, Taking Over for Jason Statham, Becoming an Action Hero, the Physical and Mental Challenges of the Role and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 26, 2014.

“...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.”

Source : Nelson Algren, H. E. F. Donohue (1964). “Conversations with Nelson Algren”, Hill

“Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.”

“The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.”

“[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.”

“Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.”

“Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.”

Source : Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books