Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.
The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.
At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating. . . at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done.
The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.
Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driverengineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
My administration is going to work with everybody in the African-American community in the inner cities, and what a big difference that is going to make. It's one of the things I most look forward to doing.
Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means