"I remember just looking at this lioness, she was staring at me, and we just had this weird connection."

“Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.”

“When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.”

Source : "Fernando Alonso: 'My father was right - Ferrari gives you a special feeling'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

“I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.”

“Vices are simply overworked virtues ...”

“I've been making pizza dough lately. And I'm pretty sure the calzone was invented when a pizza got stuck on the peel...”

“In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things. All that is missing is the believer.”

“The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.”

Source : "Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields" by Jeff Gerth, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2004.

“I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow”