Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

If you step on other people's necks to get rich, or barter your personal honor, then it is others who pay for your success and you can hardly call it your own. If, however, you build something that is of benefit to other people, give them an opportunity to rise with you on your upward climb, you make a contribution.

Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.

I like getting together with friends and just making fun of ourselves and stupid things I've done or I've seen them do - and good races we've had together. When I go home to California, I always talk to my go-kart friends about when we were racing at Red Bluff or Cycleland.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

I was raised that if I'm with you and we get in a fight, I'm going to help you. We're going down together. That's how it goes.

It's good to have genuine people around you, who are there for you when you need them.

When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all.

We are all such escape artists, you and I. We don't like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day. We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.