When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

Training is like putting money in a bank. You deposit money, and then you can take it out.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.

In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

Wherever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.