I had a very good package for Phoenix, but at other tracks we do not have the power. The Brazilian Grand Prix was maybe closer to the reality.

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

Give me a few bits of wool to stick on the car, a good gust of mistral wind, and I could come up with a better aerodynamic package on the bridge at Avigon

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity.

You never really know how quick you are before you reach F1.

That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

When I read that I had to go to Gettysburg.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.