It's only through form that we can realize emptiness
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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.
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain…. Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said. ’ ‘I don’t understand the question. ’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.
To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?
There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.