“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I am done with this creed of corruption.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.

Man will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it – walk.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.

Don’t ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.

When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.

I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It’s a different driver, this is exactly what’s happening to the cabinet.