Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

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.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Elena rolled her eyes. "Oh, please, Guy. Everything immortal has to be killed somehow. I mean, you can't survive if they cut off your head.""Want to give it try?

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. "This is so much better than a net drama.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

Resentment makes anything possible.

People didn't get to see how other towns interpreted the underground ethos, and so they developed their own unique versions of it.

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.