Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

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.

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.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

She was a wolf. She was death, devourer of the worlds.

Life is a journey. If you can’t walk, journey with your thoughts and imaginations.

My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me, ' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which one went.

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

I probably spent more time listening to albums than writing songs. But I think that gave me all the tricks in terms of wordplay, from how I pronounced my words to the actual delivery.

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.