You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.

You don't throw clothes away, because you know it's going to come back in fashion!

True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.