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

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.

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.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence.

What else is belief but direction?

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.