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

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.

As we run, we become.

That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

I'm not lucky. If I play another player, even if I don't play really good, I think I can win.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.