Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal.

If you do what you did yesterday you'll be beaten. If you do today what others are doing you'll be competitive. To win you much be doing today what others will be doing tomorrow.

Some might say that it's easier to be the runner than the runner's family.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

They were going to drag the boy she loved into the clearing, point a gun at the kindest, bravest person she'd ever met, and end his life with the twitch of a finger.

Go beyond of what's expected of you.

I feel at ease and, in an indefinable way, at home, when dolphins are around. I now know when they are nearby before they appear. I dream after they leave.

We will be judged by how well we love.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

It's not called cocaine any more. It's now referred to as Crack Classic.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

At the very point of vulnerability is where the surrender takes place-that is where the god enters. The god comes through the wound.