My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

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.

The only way to do great work is to just do it!

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.