I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

I wish that I was 'tech savvy', but unfortunately for me and my family, I'm 'tech illiterate'.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

If it gathers dust, give it away ...

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.