I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

Nothing is as it seems; everything is as you allow it to be

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.