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.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

Certainly the principal has to be bald. Certainly the school counselor has to be bald. And the driver's ed teacher. And maybe the wood-shop teacher. Mine was.

To belong to someone - I didn't know it, but now that I think about, it seems like that's all I've ever wanted. To really be somebody's, and to have them be mine.

It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.