Live your life. . . as though everything is a miracle.
As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.
Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.
Run like hell and get the agony over with.
I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.
Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times. . . . I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.