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.

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.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

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

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

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

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.