Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

Learning an instrument isn't about becoming a star anymore than learning to swim means you want to become a haddock

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.

Why have you been my friend when I didn’t deserve friendship?” “Because friendship isn’t something anyone deserves…it’s just one of those blessings of life, you can’t earn…love has no price tag.

Do not expect anything from any one.

To every difficulty, God’s grace abounds.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

It's good Mam, you've got a bike It's so much better than walking Dad just thinks it's a blessed relief It's the only time you stop talking

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.