He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.

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.

Leaders act with visions

Optimism: things will go my way. Positivism: everything is perfect right here and now, whether I like it or not.

A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

Pursue the obstacle It will set you free

Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.