One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

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.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Anytime you’re on the podium, it’s good.

Bill has three goldfish. He buys two more. How many dogs live in London?

I wish someone could get rid of individuality so easily; one never gets rid of one's individuality completely. One gets rid of one's egotism, which is a very different matter.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.