"How red the rose that is the soldier"

“If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.”

“You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position you can find ways to make your car very wide!”

Source : "Indian GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview with Matt Salisbury, www.crash.net. October 19, 2013.

“The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.”

“As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.”

“It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.”

“Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.”