Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.

No one was created in vain

As far as I can go, I will reach for it.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labor of its fabrication.