In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float upwhile slowly dying of happiness.

Forever doesn't feel like eternity when you're by my side

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

People's behavior depends upon their current situation and past experience.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.