Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

There's still time for greatness

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.

Being the new guy's always great because you get to go in fresh with your own choices and you get to bring new life and breath and a new energy into something that's already established.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.