Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

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.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

I know I'm not very popular on Long Island. I don't know who's less popular, me or Joey Buttafuoco.

When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

There is no limit to your creative power.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Be the inspiration you want to see in others

Nobody wants to lose. But I don't care what my win-loss record is. At the end of the day, I don't look at it.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.