I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

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.

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

Nothing great ever happens overnight. Greatness takes time❤ #justsayin

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

I'm not the most patient of people...

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

The best of women are hypocrites.