I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.

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.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL).

It really expresses a man in pain.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

Good melody is never out of fashion

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.