There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.
I lived to write, and wrote to live.
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.
In 1997, when I started as a professional athlete, my sport was not like it is now. I needed to develop myself to beat the next generation, but things also changed in the sport. Bikes have changed, the sport has gotten faster, and it's becoming more professional. But my goal always was to try to be one step in front of all the others. That was my motivation. That helped me to work every day during the year, and very hard. And it never stopped.