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.

To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.

It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

The key then is to find your own mountain, otherwise you will be competing with people who are not even in your event, and running up against the 'shoulds' and 'oughts' of that world, and the inevitable frustration and depression and feelings of failure. A person can be complete or incomplete, but one thing is sure, he cannot be someone else.

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