Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

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.

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

Man is slow because he hesitates

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

What you're looking for, you won't find. But only by looking for it can it find you.

Write the best book you possibly can, then dedicate yourself to getting people to read it.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.