My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

Ferrari gives you a special feeling.

I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

The race is lost. You can't overtake here and I'm starting from 15th... It's over already.

I have always been very calm on the outside.

Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

If you are always worrying about a rainy day, then it's time to strategically start saving for one.

The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

You know how it is - you make songs, and as you make the new ones, the old ones get old and you throw them out.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.