"Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting."

"Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue."

"I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow."

"I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had."

"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."

"Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena."

"No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle."

"Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity."