Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

The journey isn't always perfect, but always worth taking.

After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie.

Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow.

Racing is the fun part; it's the reward of all the hard work.

Erase from your mind that your preparation must be perfect. Hard work + dedication = a shot at your dreams. Keep believing.

I don't settle down. I don't follow any path.Because I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!

It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.

habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.

Never give up praying until the answer comes.

Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow that others will follow.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.