I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

You have to take the hits as they come and you have to take the opportunities.

There's a ton of talent in this country. Some just need to be given a shot.

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have.

You have to take everything as it comes.

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.

Things happen for a reason. We'll see where life takes me from here.

I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.

Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.