I don't have many superstitions, just dumb things I don't talk about. I will not sign an autograph with a green pen.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

to live at all is to be bruised

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop.

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.