I decided to make the life I want, and put energy into what moves me, and not rely on anyone for approval of my choices.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.

Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.

Running is not who I am; it's something I do; it's something I love.

Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.

By lifting each other up we lift ourselves up

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

The strongest bond in the universe is when two souls unite to become one.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.