To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

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.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

The Saviour is my strength.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Ive been on the tour for 12 years, and the big dream has always been to get a world title.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

When it comes to dialogue between South and North Korea and between the United States and North Korea, these can go on parallel tracks. South Korea and the United States can each play a role.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.