I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

The marathon can humble you.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

I often lose motivation, but it's something I accept as normal.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

Don't feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run.

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

I always say if the marathon is a part-time interest, you will only get part-time results.

Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

I am definitely a lot more girly that the characters that I play.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.