Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

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.

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

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.

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin', ' he set a whole new standard.

At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

I always enjoyed doing transgender songs.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.