The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.

But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.

Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.

Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.

Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.

You know it's going to hurt, you know you are going to struggle, but you Have to work on your form, stay upright, the sooner you get there the sooner the pain is over.

Don't wait until you get hungry to eat. Eating throughout the day is best. And obviously sleep is important.

I run in Central Park, I love that place. That's the beauty of running, I had my jacket, my tight and my gloves - my gloves never leave my backpack. Just in case.

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

All human experiences, from the feeling of love, to the presence of God emerge from various brain activity.

It is not the number of prayers that will give you happiness, but the number you answer for another person.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.