Quotes from Bill Strickland

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

The sand in the hourglass flows only one way. Don't waste precious time chasing someone else's definition of success. Live your life with purpose now. Look for the things that inspire you, trouble you, make you feel most alive, and trust in those things to shape your future. They will give you all your heart could ever wish for.

Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.

What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable condition.

Commit yourself to a passion that moves you.

I found out that fear ends, and that when you emerge from the other side, you're not a courageous person. You're just unafraid.

Most of the white kids in my classes had grown up in stable neighborhoods and had graduated from good schools. They came to Pitt with a natural confidence and expectations of high achievement, and it was clear to me from the very start that they had been prepared, in ways that were beyond me, to make their dreams come true.

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.