Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.
That’s one of the worst things about getting old. That people allow themselves to die before you.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all
I had to go through so horribly much before I found out to skip where the fence is lowest.
Never stop being a good person because of bad people.
Cyclists live with pain. If you can’t handle it you will win nothing.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.