All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.

Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

The moment money becomes your motivation, you are immediately not as good as someone who is stimulated by passion and internal will.

Never lift. Never stop believing.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

I told you guys... don't stop believing.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.