Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

The marathon can humble you.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)

Carve your own adventure, bloom your own romance, thread your own signs

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

I don't do well when I don't work.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies.