The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

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.

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

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.