“I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one’s work.”

I race to win, not to please people

When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.

As long as I breathe, I attack.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

As long as I live and breathe, I attack

There’s a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

There’s a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn’t going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him…He became one with the nature of Satan, so all those who had the nature of Satan can partake of the nature of God.

I didn’t want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.

I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.