I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

There's always room for improvement.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

When I was three years old, I had race-car wallpaper, a race-car bed, race-car toys. That was all I wanted. And nothing has changed. Except I don't have a race-car bed anymore.?

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

I have to win races. It's not even an option.

You don't go to a race track to finish second.

I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.

I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.

I don't worry about anything but winning races.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.