The margin between success and drama is fractional.

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

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.

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

Brains were no good to a working man

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.

Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up.

When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.