I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.

There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.

[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

We are all afraid of the truth.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.