I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

High school wasnt a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.

Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like Water for Chocolate.' Creatively, I felt like I'd hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes.

I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own - ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him.

I enjoy Saturday night racing.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

In todays rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just Being.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.

Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow, death comes.