I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you.

Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us.

We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.

Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

One step at a time, I get to make positive choices to fulfill my dreams.

I love challenges and hurdles because they are opportunities.

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

As athletes, we have ups and downs. Unfortunately, you can't pick the days they come on.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?