If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

God is action - let us be like God.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.