I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else.

We are going to look at the results at the end of the semester to determine the future of the program. I am really eager to see what the scores look like on the end of the semester report cards.

I guess I'd rather be lucky than good.

Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.

God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The best defense is a good offense.

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?"

I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.