I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.

The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

The object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.