When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.

The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.

I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.

He came to me through faith in him.

Allow yourself to be freed from the constraints of what the mind knows, believes & thinks.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else.