“That’s the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.”

“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”

“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.”

“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.”

“I always tell young swimmers: 'Practice things until you can't get them wrong. Not until you get them right.”

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost….”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“If you want to. That’s the important thing. For you to do what you want to do. Not what you think anyone else wants or expects you to do.”

“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”

“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”