I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

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.

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

How vast a memory has Love!

If you don't believe in yourself nobody else will believe in you.

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Listen to sounds beyond silence.

I want the cleanest water, the freshest air and wildlife in abundance... but most of all I want a future for our children.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!