There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

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.

If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam.

Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.