Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely...change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

God has unlimited resources for every great work. Are you a willing spirit?

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.