You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

You are stronger than you know.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?

We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.