Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.