Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

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.

There is nothing to fearFrom your reflection

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

Who would true valour see, Let him come hither; One here will constant be, Come wind, come weather There’s no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.