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

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

As long as I live and breathe, I attack

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

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with – that’s the way I was raised – but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.