For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

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 weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job.

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.