March 4, 2005

Two thoughts

"The qualities and capacities that are important in running, such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain, have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life."

Jim Fixx


"Neither a borrower nor a lender be
"For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
"And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

Polonius giving advice to his son, Laetres
(Hamlet, Act I, Scence 3)