We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

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.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

I don't have a college degree.

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.