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.

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

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

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

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.