As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

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.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

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

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

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

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

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

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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.

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.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

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