A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

A race isn't won until it's over.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

I like to have sleepovers.

Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the earth and combust. Please. Is that too much to ask?

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.