When I raced with Mercedes, I thought Id learn German. But my wife didnt want to live in Germany.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.

If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a novel read years ago.

I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of things.

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

An enormous number of people come to the USA legally and then simply overstay their visas because we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.