What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Men, today we die a little.

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then willpower is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's beside the point. It's simply that I just have to.

If you want to run a mile, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

I spent a long time experimenting, saying, 'Here's a record that's free, or $5 if you want a nice version or $250 if you'd like a really nice coffee-table thing.' Everything felt like the right thing to do at the time and then six months later would feel tired. And I would feel tired. So that's one reason for returning to a major label.

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Its a tough world to find yourself in but an even tougher one to be yourself in.

There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

A thankful heart cannot be cynical.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn't do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can't take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer Communion mortification retirement.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.