I ran my first sub-4-minute mile in 1977 and since then have run 136 more. Nobody has run as many sub-4s as I have, and I intend to run at least one more.

Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.

I keep telling my kids - whether you achieve your goal or not is not the most important thing. Putting yourself in position to achieve those goals is what's important.

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

If you find something that works double down on it

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?

Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Food in Chicago is the best.

...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.

You're every love song ever written.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.

People shouldn't find out how trashy I am.