Thanks to the race-day adrenaline rush, any pace will feel easier than normal. So make a conscious effort to hold back in the early miles.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.

What the mind can believe, you can achieve.

At least in a race you have mile markers and know how long you have to go. Labor is like running as hard as you can without knowing where the finish line is.

When I capture my thoughts and compare them to the truth of God’s Word, I often find they are false, deceptive, or destructive.

We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

every failure is also a victory.

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.

I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.