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Knowing that another path might have been easier for him to travel, but that it couldn't possibly have offered a more satisfying conclusion.

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

He never understood when she said that if she went to a doctor, the doctor would only invent a disease that would explain why he couldn't help her.

To remember is to leave the present.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that which you manifest is before you.

Let me tell you this: The Weather Channel is not about weather; it is about the world!

But there's nothing like your first {child}. They grow up so fast.

You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

The truth belongs to he who tells it, so what good is it, anyway?

But I totally understood that what filled us with energy could be irritating to someone else,

When a dog dies, his soul is released to run until he is ready to be reborn

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

I gotta be honest with you ... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain.

Suppressing the symptom does nothing but force the true problem to express itself on a deeper level at some other time.

Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

The car goes where the eyes go.

Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.

We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.

If you feel you don't have enough, you hold on to things," he said. "But if you feel you have enough, you let go of things.

What he offered me is not for me to keep, but for me to give to another.

You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in
prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

You should shine with all of your light all the time.

No race has ever been won in the first corner," he said. "But plenty of races have been lost there." I

Sometimes I believe ... Sometimes I really do believe.

Gestures are all that I have.

Get busy mother f---er!

Grandparents are convinced they're better parents than their own kids, whose lives they've already fucked up.

To finish the race first, you must first finish the race.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

I'll give you a theory: Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

Your car goes where your eyes go.
Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

That which we manifest is before us.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.

That which you manifest is before you.
The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer ... I would just be well adjusted.

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

The smell would have given me an erection if I'd still had testicles.

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again.

How quickly a year passes, like a mouthful of food snatched from the maw of eternity.

A woman scorned, indeed! Kate Hepburn would smash her with a single blow and laugh while doing it.

Intention is everything.

However things might change around us, we would always be together.

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

Ben Harrison is a dick-faced troll!

You can't know what's going to happen before it happens.

...the race isn't over until the checker flies.

Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206

More wine helps; it takes the edge off the despair.

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

I didn't want to admit that I still slept with a stuffed animal. But I did. I loved that dog.

If money affects who you love, then it isn't really love.

One more lap, Denny! One more lap! Faster!

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

Do not blame other people for being themselves, you will only be frustrated by it.

You have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

head to acknowledge the occasional petting

that his gesture was symbolic, as Serena said. But symbolic of

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

What I want now is what I've always wanted.

You have to have a sense of humor about it all. You can't take yourself too seriously.

That what you manifest is before you

A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of the geese.

The visible becomes inevitable...

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism. I

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

He says racing is doing. It is being a part of a moment and being aware of nothing else but that moment. Reflection must come at a later time.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

Music doesn't have a bedtime,

We had a good run, and now it's over; what's wrong with that?

The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles.

But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship.