Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Education is the best wealth that you can acquire in life. No one can steal it when you are alive.

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself

How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is greif and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.