Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Don't run with your legs, run with your heart.

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."

As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further.

That's two full days away. Maybe, if I'm not dead by then, I can still take Sophie.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

What makes me unique is that, I'm normal.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.