We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster.

You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.

Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.

Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.

I will never want for more. You are my totality.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

Sesame Street... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

i am the wind. one day, i will fly free

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.