Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

Run hard, be strong, think big!

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

Pain is the purifier. Love pain. Embrace pain.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

A life without concrete product is a meaningless one

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning." -Pg.242-

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.