I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

I love cycling, running and swimming. In recent years I've competed regularly in triathlons, which means I don't find the physical side of driving a struggle any more.

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

When it comes down to it you have to be true to yourself and the rest falls into place.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.