What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.

Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.

The most important day in any running program is rest. Rest days give your muscles time to recover so you can run again. Your muscles build in strength as you rest.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.

You don't know now and after and before who has watched you and who is watching you and who will continue doing that.

At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.