It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

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.

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.

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.

On the Death of his ChildDew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

Architecture aims at Eternity.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.