Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

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.

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.

She did not want to be a consolation prize. Be pitied or a distraction.

To be simple is to be great.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

If I'm feeling crazy, I'll make some bacon because I'm obsessed with bacon.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.