I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

As we run, we become.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

I'm one of the luckiest people on Earth.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.