Craig T. Nelson

When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling. ”

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. ”

I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river. ”

I don't want to be told what's for my good. ”

My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.' ”

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier. ”

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody. ”

I love going to work. ”

What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families that shouldn't be there. ”

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education. ”