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

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.

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

I think people respond to me as a down-to-Earth, girl-next-door person, because I am one of those people. That's something I don't have to act very hard at.

What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble.