So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

Does it scare me, driving into nothing at 300kph? - Of course it does - I'm not an idiot.

I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.

The only real estate I will ever truly own is the space inside my head and heart. And what I build there is up to me.

Subject to the law(s) of nature, hate is born to die

Leaders are intentionally lucky.

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

You can't take life for granted.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.