Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

I like to keep my wheels on the ground.

I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on a regular basis by their mere presence on earth.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

I think all we should legislate is morality.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.