“In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.”

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it’s much easier with Him by our side.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

Good health, peace of mind, being outdoors, camaraderie – those are all wonderful things that come to you when running. But for me, the real pull of running – the proverbial icing on the cake – has always been racing.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I’ve compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Running has thrown me into adventures that I would otherwise have missed.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.