The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

Training is like putting money in a bank. You deposit money, and then you can take it out.

New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.

In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

We dreamed together of the world remade.

You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.

Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.