"After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful."

"I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been."

"When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family."

"I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring."

"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."