The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.

Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.

I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.