It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

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.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way.

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Consciousness does affect matter.

To be a friend of the earth, you have to be an enemy of man.