Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play, you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product.

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

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

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

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.