If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

One can legitimately accentuate certain things, like a caricaturist.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

The Scriptures sprang out of God.