A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

The bicycle is its own best argument. You just get a bike, try it; start going with the thing and using it as it suits you. It'll grow and it gets better and better and better.

The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business. (page iii)

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

I was slumped next to him. He didn't pay any attention to me, but kept snickering as he drove. It was annoying. I had PMS and a test this morning. Boy, had he picked the wrong girl.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

I believe in aging gracefully