The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

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.

You Change, the things WHEN YOU let your thoughts be like the mind of Christ.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.