There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

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.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

It's fun to take a piece of formula and go someplace else with it and see what happens.

When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

No one knows enough to worry.

The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.