If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

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 want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon our flames of desire...

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

[Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

When I'm in heels - and I live in heels - I take on a different posture, a different attitude, different energy.