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

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.

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

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Death is the end of our ephemeral life and beginning of infinite eternal life.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that.

When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.

I've got money so I'm a Conservative.