When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

You benefit from getting in enough volume at the beginning of your training.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with.

There is a sacred lesson in any situation.

That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal.

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.