If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

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.

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

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