“Whenever I encounter a challenge in my life, I use the experience to learn and grow. I rise above all limitations.”

“Whenever I see something that challenges me, I take it on.”

“I learned more in the six or seven hours of this experience than I had learned in all my years as a psychologist.”

“That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.”

“As the phrase that I had coined goes: If I cannot join them, I will rise above them; and if I cannot rise above them, I will destroy them.”

“All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.”

“I guess it's you I miss.
'Cause I just stare at the ceiling.
My stomach knots and twists.
You've created this feeling.
And I may be out of style.
But do you know what true love is? I'll make this all so worthwhile.
So let's rise above this. Let's rise above this.”

“I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.”

“Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.”

“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”