Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Men, today we die a little.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

Normal is just a settng on your dryer

I like how books let you into another world, but how it's secret. Like, when you read, the world you see is different from the one someone else sees when they read the same words. It's just yours.

It is almost as thoughsomething else is breathingquite close by, invisibly.The mystery of the names…Albizzia. Gleditsia.Aucuba japonica. AndI am listening, seeing. Seeing, like someone twice alive.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

I've never really been about looking good - I'm just bad at that stuff.