The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

You will be surrounded by negativity but you shall overcome it with positivity.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.