Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

Part of my wisdom consists of being a whiz at reminding the dumb, why they should be whizzes, and not just live life to whiz by others.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.