People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

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 talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.

In my personal life I've made a lot of compromises. I don't live comfortably. I've lived out of a suitcase for the last 15 years. I have lived without a dime to my name, for a very long time.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

I am mentally strong.