“If you work hard and try your best absolutely anyone can do anything.”

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

“If you read a story that really involves you, your body will tell you that you are living through the experience. You will recognize feelings that have physical signs - increased heart rate, sweaty palms, or calm, relaxed breathing and so on, depending on your mood. These effects are the same you would feel in similar real-life experiences - fear, anger, interest, joy, shame or sadness. Amazingly, you can actually 'live' experience without moving anything but your eyes across a page.”

“Be concerned with how you live than with how long”

“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”

“If it absolutely, positively, has to be done overnight.”

“Those who have never been to the edge and looked over will never understand that it is better to live one day as a lion than a lifetime as a sheep. The ones that been to the edge know that hard times don't last forever, but hard men do.”