When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.

I hate wearing trousers and shoes. I wear jeans and sneakers most of the time.

Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.

Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.

Formula one is very one-dimensional in terms of what we do in the cockpit.

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Do not fear to give yourself a chance that will change you for the better.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.