The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom

The voice of jealousy strikes from those who aim to hurt you, not those who love you!

I'm not going to let you go " He was silent for a moment. "Carly " he said gently. "Remember when we were first engaged

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.

Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.