The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.
Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.
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.
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
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.