Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

What I love about what digital entertainment has done is that they've given real creative freedom to folks like myself who are doing really groundbreaking stuff.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.