Play is where life lives

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.

As you think, so you are.

True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I accept myself for who I am as a woman and a mother and this has given me the most confidence.

Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the unavoidable, learning to face it with courage.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.