We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

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 I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many opportunities in life.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

There is an interview given by [ Jean-Paul] Sartre in the USA where he is asked what the future of French literature is, and he replies that the next great writer of the future is [Albert] Camus.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.

Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.