Exercise: you don't have time not to

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

Find the ideal in something not ideal.