The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

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.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

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.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

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.

He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

Sunday, for me, is all about being home with the family with no plans.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I hope everybody's getting smarter.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.