Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

As we run, we become.

God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.

If my wife finds comfort in trite Gispy homilies, I have no objection to your offering them. However, if you ever kiss her again, no matter how platonic the fashion, I'll make a eunuch of you.

Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.