I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.

Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.

It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

Only you can choose the nature of what grows, or what doesn't, within you.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

Have patience. Stocks don't go up immediately.