The volume of twaddle from critics is directly proportional to the distance you keep from them. There is always room to spread your wings when you fly solo.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

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

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.

We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

I've come for one of your lasses, " Sinclair said again. "A maid - she must be a virgin."Donal folded his arms over his chest. "What for? Pagan sacrifice?

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

We must love, as looking one day to hate.

Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.

Truth is not found by knowledge, it is found by silence. And knowledge is noisy.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.