If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Don't run with your legs, run with your heart.

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Sir Mark Turner, " he said. "I speak with the tongues of a thousand angels. Butterflies follow me wherever I go. Birds sing when I take a breath.

I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.

Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.