Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

As we run, we become.

The most amazing speeches are a mix of fear, expertise, and practice.

Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.

IMPRESSIONS

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.