The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

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

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

I play a position where you make mistakes. The only people that don't make them at a hockey game are the people watching.