The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

A lifestyle change begins with a vision and a single step.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

The marathon is a competition between your will and your possibilities

To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

The most important force inside you for feeling better all the time is the will to get more fit.

When I finish a run, every part of me is smiling.

Everyone has stress. A good run may not erase it, but it can reduce the effect and allow runners to gain control.

There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.

Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.

It is not, in the long run, the battles and sieges that signify, but the permanent effect on the human race of the changes they help to bring about.

What I wasn't used to was being in front of the camera.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Who knew an elf queen could be so vicious!

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

I have no need for that hypothesis.