Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

You drive the car, you don't carry it.

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Whatever yerz’re lookin’ for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight’ve never lost it!

Every morning we begin our new life with new joy. So let it be beautiful.

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.

I don't like people cleaning my room.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

If I spend a Saturday being lazy and curled up on the couch with my dogs, I'll just make sure to get out and be active on Sunday.