Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.

Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it's just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more likely I am to get me own needs met.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.