A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

It's karma, baby. And it goes around.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.

It is the leader's job to hold hope high.

Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.