When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?

I've been through a lot and I realise the future can't be controlled. I'm not worried. You can always learn to overcome difficulties.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

A race isn't won until it's over.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

If they come prying they can leave curious.