Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

It is important to remember yourself.

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Posture for combat is so vital.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.