I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

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.

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.

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.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds

I am the universe and the universe is inside of me.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

I grew up in New York, I love New York.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Look up there! That's the sky!

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.