If marathoners finish they win.

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.

Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, you become a winner.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

Running makes you an athlete in all areas of life...trained in the basics, prepared for whatever comes, ready to fill each hour and deal with the decisive moment.

And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.