The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It was a feeling I can't describe. I still get it every time I get into a race car.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

A goal isn’t something you just arrive at and stop. You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish...

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

We don’t hate what we once loved but we decided to take some time off and it was eternal

Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.