As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you.

Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

If you see only problems, then the doors of opportunities will close. If you see only opportunities, then problems will fly away.

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

My character is not flawless.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.