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.

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

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.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

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

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

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.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

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

I have found my hero and he is me.

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

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