"For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity.  If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people."

“We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.”

“I stay with my family. I try to be a good husband and good dad. That's my real life.”

“My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.”

“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.”

“Anguish is the universal language”

Source : Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

“An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.186, Vintage

“Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.”

“In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.”