Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.

We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate.

With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.