In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

As we run, we become.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

Never judge yourself so harshly that you never arise from the ashes of life.

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing.