The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket."

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

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

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

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

Running is the heart of what it means to be human.

Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a punishment for eating cheesecake, which is what we've turned it into.

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

If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

In America, black is a country.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I would love for Hillary's [Clinton] massive ad campaign to be pointless and worthless. I would love for it to bomb out.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.