The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Mmmm… stay.” Her voice was barely audible, as she grazed her lips against mine and her head fell back against the pillow into a deep sleep.

If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate.

It's good to remember…So you know you need to do now, So you know that you ain't got forever just right now, Good to remember death man.

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.

Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.