“Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.”

“What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But ...”

“I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.”

“No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.”

“It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.”

“There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.”

“For every inch of skin, there is memory. Devils are so made. Saints, too, if you believe in them. His humanity has been broken as an old walking stick that once held up a crippled man named Thomas....”

“It frightens me that I can't do anything sensible about it.""Are you scared that you'll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?""I'm more...”

“She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”

“I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.”

“Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.”

“Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.”