In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

I'm a good blend of both my mom and dad.

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

If you reach for the stars, but only touch the sky, isn't that better than never knowing the sweet taste of flight?

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.

Our bodies are the time machine.

In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away.