Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.
We were born to run; we were born because we run.
If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other. . . but to be with each other.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.