In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.

If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.

Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool,  and stop oppressing others so badly.

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

If you want to bethe best you can be, don’t judge anyone.Not even yourself.

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.