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

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

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.

It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation, ” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

Republican is fine, if your a millionaire. Democrats is fair, if all you own is what you wear. Neither of them's really right, cause neither of them care.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.