Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

Exercise: you don't have time not to

There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.