"I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States."

"In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more."

"Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing."

"When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't."

"The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth."

"I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me."

"I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time."

"To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday."

"My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags."

"I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear."

"I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it."

"On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program."

"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

"The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches."

"Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery."

"Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed."

"The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained."

"A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."

"Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me."

"This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution."

"If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do."

"The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little."

"A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise."

"We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events."

"You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general."

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

"We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness."

"The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future."

"The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact."

"Familiarity breeds liking."

"Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions."

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

"The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works."

"Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty."

"We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact."

"The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own."

"Jonathan Haidt said in another context, “The emotional tail wags the rational dog."

"To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other."

"Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition."

"Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality."

"The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast."

"You have no compelling moral intuitions to guide you in solving that problem. Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself."

"In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand."

"As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain."

"Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment."

"The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?"

"To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability."

"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."