The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

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.

Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Political courage requires clarity.

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all.

The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.