“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.

I’ve always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown.

American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.