“Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.”

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

“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will run.”

“Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears. Take in what is there and give no thought to what might have been there or what is somewhere else. That can come later, if it must come at all. (And notice here how the true training for anything whatever that is good always prefigures and, if submitted to, will always help us in, the true training for the Christian life)”

“Good God, woman. Hit the brakes on the freight train that is your mouth.”

“Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.”