A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

My music is a luxury.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

I’m not sure how I’d survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must drink 20 cups a day.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Right after the draft, when I came out to Oakland, there was a press conference and a dinner with the owner, GM, and Coach Nelson. We did some sightseeing and some house searching the next day, but to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing. I tried to find a spot close to our gym, because I figured that’s where I’d spend most of my time.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Rap was my drug.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Working out anchors my day.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I’m very free-spirited.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys… Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house… and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I’m much healthier now.