So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

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.

I was painter staring at a canvas waiting for the forgotten visions of my new abstract piece to come to me. But I am the abstract piece and my mind cannot comprehend the work my heart has created.

No practice exists in isolation.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.