Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
If I died right now, my life would be complete.
If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.
I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.
I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't go on vacations. I don't take my family on vacations because I don't have a family. My family is the racing family.
We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective.
I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.
[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business. . . . So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
Everyone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.
the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle. He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?