Fitness is just a stage you pass through on the way to becoming a racer.

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.

The kingdom of God is here

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Everything I desire is within me.

I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.