There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

Aleksar Greene was a boy I used to play with, he was my imaginary friend.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.