I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into Turn 1, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

I've been taught from a young age to want to be the best driver... It was about being the best driver and not the best girl.

I'm a good blend of both my mom and dad.

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.

Well-apparel'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads.

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.