For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.