Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run.

Running is a simple activity. Just lace up your shoes and go, one step at a time, like each breath.

If we push on, we begin to feel a vague, tingling sense of who, or what, we really are. It's a powerful feeling, strong enough to have us coming back for more, again and again.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Even the voters behind Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, for the most part, do not support them, but actually are mostly afraid of the other candidate.

On the lips of my enemy, my sister’s lover, my lover’s killer, I taste the punishment I deserve. I taste oblivion.

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.