“I found myself sitting in the RB7 and smiling.”

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

At the end of your life, it’s friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what’s in your bank account.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool – ‘Oh yeah, I’m fine, I’m on top of this’ – but I was completely lost.

You can’t change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

I don’t care too much what happened in the past.

Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It’s made by God’s hands.

You can’t always say what you’d like to say.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

After 10 weeks away from Formula One, when they started the engine here at Valencia and everything was vibrating,

If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn’t lose focus. That made the difference.

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don’t even think about that.

So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.

We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.