It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.

Just because they say it's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

To move into the lead means making an act requiring fierceness and confidence. But fear must play some part...no relaxation is possible, and all discretion is thrown into the wind.

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

GOD is like a streetlight. He keeps observing you silently when it is light and showers you with light when you are in darkness!

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs.

You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he’s busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what’s happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)

Source reduction is, on the face it, perhaps the most appealing of all the possible approaches to solid-waste management.