I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

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.

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

Your thought should be creative and not destructive

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.