My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

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.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

'Dammit I'm mad' is 'Dammit I'm mad' spelled backwards.

Don't go through life, grow though life

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.