Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

The most important force inside you for feeling better all the time is the will to get more fit.

When I finish a run, every part of me is smiling.

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

My lifeless body - a boat with sunken anchors, without leader on board, without harbor, without country, only my moist sails afloat in that tremendous ocean of my tears, , , ,

Choosing to be miserable is an option, but not one I recommend.

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

Get the steppin' This is my show, I'm running things, here!