Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.

Being inspired is fine for a week, and being motivated might work for a month or so, but to make any lifestyle change last a lifetime, you need dedication.

I am a runner because I run. Not because I run fast. Not because I run far. I am a runner because I say I am. And no one can tell me I'm not.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

I didn't train all that time just to come here and get it over with as fast as I can

Running is not just exercise; it is a lifestyle.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.

The greatest self is the grace to live for your dreams.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

I'm putting on a suit and tie when I go see The Great Gatsby.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.