I think I've seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.

I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.

I love Australia. I mean it's, how can you not? It's an incredibly beautiful country. I like the people, I like the country, I love it. I mean it's wonderful.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!