People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.

I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

It is curious how people go on believing that the musician knows less about what he is doing than those that judge him.

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

It's cheaper to keep her.

I don't necessarily consider myself part of the animation world.