Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

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 should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Happiness surrounds those who are happy.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Do something everyday that scares you.

I'm very attracted to Indians.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago

Complacency is the enemy of study.

"Leading" is about mobilizing people toward valued goals.