Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

When did most of us stop being poets?

Life had a way of shifting under her feet like quicksand and she had learned to just make the best of it. Like Gigi always said, ‘when God closes a door, he shoves you out the window.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

Ebooks had to happen.

I remember when I was 11, I did some Kung-fu demonstrations in Hong Kong in 1974.

Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.