A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.

Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions.

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.