Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

The good Lord doesn't tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'

I didn't miss out on a family life because of racing. I had one because of it.

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

It's counterproductive and self-destructive to bear grudges with people that are negative.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

You have to be willing to put yourself in position for good things to happen

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.