Run like hell and get the agony over with.

Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

......He was public enemy number one, and he was okay with that. It felt good to be himself.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.

Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.