There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

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

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

When we take our eyes off Jesus and only focus on ourselves and our circumstances, we can no longer see Him. God says He will keep us in perfect peace if we keep our eyes on Him.

Love is acceptance without judgment.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Keep ambitions high, in front of God and people, Your credibility will be in proportion to your ambitions

One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.