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.

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?

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.

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

I don’t need those memories, Kai. We can make new ones. We… can start over. Just like we’ve met only yesterday.

He's (God's) always preparing you for that glorious life, even in your tough times.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen.

And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

In fact, with each of my novels I have been surprised by something that happens that I had not thought of beforehand.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.