Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner

I have my own unique road that has had many exciting ups and heart-breaking downs, but one thing I know is that my journey is not over and the best is yet to come.

I constantly remind myself that resting takes confidence. Anyone can train like a mad man but to embrace rest and to allow all the hard training to come out takes mental strength.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.

It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.

Something is being released in the spiritual realm, when it does go to the phone. When the mantle gets passed to you go to the phone and sow a $70 tithe to the $700 pledge.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

I want to see a publicly-owned railway, publicly accountable.