People always think that the worst time of my life must have been after the German Grand Prix crash in 1976, which put me in a coma and left me with severe burns. But it wasn't.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

Yeah, I had a talk show canceled. Okay, let's go back to the list of people who had talk shows canceled. Johnny Carson had his first talk show canceled. Jon Stewart. Letterman. Conan O'Brien, if you look at 'The Tonight Show' as a show that got canceled.

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.