A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.
If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.
Running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.
Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.
Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!
Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your dream, follow your heart, follow your passion, run your own race and believe in yourself. I think anybody who wants to succeed has to have passion. My love for this sport, you can't instill it in someone else.
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.
When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me.
It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.
Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.