“The long run is the single most important ingredient to marathon success.”

Advise persons never to engage in killing.

Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.

You will be a hero just for finishing, so don’t put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.

As long as I’m still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets,

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.