"I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about."

“In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.”

“Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.”

Source : 1918 Married Love, ch.10.

“If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night; sometimes, I've looked back at things I wrote the night before, and realized they were no good at all.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

“From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.”

“Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.”

“One outcome is almost certain. Extremism stands to benefit enormously from an uncalculated adventure in Iraq,.”

Source : "Iraq vows to cooperate on prohibited missiles". cnn.com. February 19, 2003.

“A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.”

“Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.”