I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.

For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.

In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

If a thing goes without saying -- let it.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.