No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

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

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

Play is where life lives

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

Exercise: you don't have time not to