The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

A winner’s mentality always works towards victory

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.