If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

Some relationships need an intermission while some require an ending.

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

I'd rather be over the hill than under it.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at.

Keep advertising and advertising will keep you.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

In the end of 2012 no one looks back on this year and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep