History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences.

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.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.