The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

As we run, we become.

You don't have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there's a big difference between the two.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.