Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Ask nothing from your running, and you'll get more than you ever imagined!

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, Angel said. You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.

I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Finding the hidden dimensions of your life is the way to fulfill your deepest hunger.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

I just don't like my voice in the studio, and I just don't like the studio, I'm not a studio-head. And that's why you don't get so much material from me.

I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else.