To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

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.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

Love is pure, perfect, precise, and precious.

An angel of God never has wings.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]

Made­lyne, I would like to speak to you in pri­vate after din­ner." "Speak to me about what?" Made­lyne de­manded with a dis­grun­tled look. "Men and their horses," Dun­can told her

Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Partying isn't every aspect to my personality.