When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Most people are bad with names. I have learned a trick: Make them laugh and they will never forget you.

Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.