My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

As a driver you enjoy winning races and, if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip-and-tuck stuff.

It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

I wanted desperately to be part of our pack

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

World records are only borrowed.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.