You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

I have not missed a day from work because of illness since 1956.

Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

Over the years, Ive covered 22,000 miles.

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul.

Is the whole world doomed to emotional trauma?

I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.("The Accursed Cordonnier")

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.