If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

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.

It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.

We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.

I don't need debt. And if I need debt, if I want debt, I can get it from banks in New York City very easily.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

I love the feeling of shredded wheat. I love healthy bird food with a fun-to-eat feel. Then you spray them with sugar, and I'm there.

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.