Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

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.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

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.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I don’t care about money.

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

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

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.