If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

I cant really imagine life without Formula One.

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!

Be a hungry, passionate go-getter and together we will accomplish wonders.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.

Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

What I want is to have no enemies when I die. Right now, I seem to have a lot of them.

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.