The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.