I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.

Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

The struggles I'm facing, The chances I'm taking, Sometimes might knock me down, But no, I'm not breaking.

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.