If marathoners finish they win.

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.

Passion without purpose leads to frustration.Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.Passion with purpose leads to success.

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

In spite of our proud domination of nature, we are still her victims, for we have not even learned to control our nature.

Man's memory shapesIts own Eden within

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

When you're a connoiseur you look for interesting rather than good.

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Truth resides where there is faith.