“In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He...”

“I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'”

“The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American...”

“Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.”

“I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.”

“I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Song of myselfNow I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it. I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, gossip of flames, clack ...”

“Learn when to talk and when to listen. If you're unsure, listen.”

“The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, poly...”

“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”

“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”