Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

People want to feel hopeful.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.