I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction

...you needs uh man.” Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone

Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. (Who loves me will love my dog also.)

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

I'm a 6 AM guy. I get up at 6 AM every morning so I can knock out my email, phone calls and start the day.

It's just fantastic to feel the speed and the braking. It was a hard work - to hold an f1 car on the circuit is a job in itself. To drive quickly is another thing. I enjoyed it.