I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.

The more you cook, the better you'll look.

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

If I practice I'll really alienate people.

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.