You don't need any skill to run.......Every 3-year old knows how to run

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

As we run, we become.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success.

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.