“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”

“A lion runs to the fastest when he is hungry.”

“You know the story of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The red queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she is. That is exactly what you are all doing. running faster and faster. But you are not moving anywhere.”

“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”

“I wake up every morning and think: You know what would be good today? Not dying.”

“What are you?” I said irritably.
“In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I’m stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don’t apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.”

“But you know he'll always keep movin';
You know he's never gonna stop movin.
Cus he's rollin',
He's the rollin' stone.And when you wake up it's a new mornin'.
The sun is shinin' it's a new morning.
You're goin',
You're goin' home.”

“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

“It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.”

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”