New York doesn't buy stars, New York creates them.

When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

You feel good while you're running and you feel even better when you're finished.

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

Training is like putting money in a bank. You deposit money, and then you can take it out.

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

Time reveals the truth.

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.