"We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known." (Chapter 15, p. 93).

'"Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry,' Mark Twain used to say." (Chapter 15, p. 97).

"Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People." (Chapter 15, p. 99).

"'Lesson two,' Caballo called. 'Think Easy, Light, Smooth, and Fast.'" (Chapter 17, p. 111).

"Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." (Chapter 17, p. 112).

"...the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it." (Chapter 19, p. 125).

"'When you run on the earth and run with the...