Ultimately, an aircraft owner does not want to have to deal with all the intricate details which are necessary for the business.

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.

It is best to learn as we go not go as we have learned.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny