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

You can’t always have the best team. It’s always a compromise.

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

Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.

I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

I work very hard and they don’t appreciate that.

It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

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

People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don’t know.

I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.

I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn’t understand why there have been so many good South American drivers, especially Brazilians.

If I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

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’m brave to say that I won’t take this sort of risk.

I don’t like to go over curbs, because I don’t want to be hard on the car.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

The love I have for you burns faster than a forest fire.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

The Tao is in all things, in their divisions and their fullness. What I dislike about divisions is that they multiply, and what i dislike about multiplication is that it makes people want to hold fast to it. So people go out and forget to return, seeing little more than ghosts.

Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.

But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

He smiled, and just like that, I fell in love – hard and fast.

It was unexpected. That’s just how it was. I don’t believe they were faster than us. I don’t believe they had more heart or dedication. It just fell on their side. That’s the reality of it.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.