"Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it."

"My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar."

"One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend."

"Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time."

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."

"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets."

"If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you."