If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
All you need is the courage to believe in yourself and put one foot in front of the other.
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.
I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.
Life is for participating, not for spectating.
When you say you want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as I want to do something about racial justice. Saying I want to hold police accountable is doing something. Saying that I want to take money out of politics, big money, is doing something.
Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can.
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces of production, rather than consumption - they should be producing food, and fuel.