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.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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.

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.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

I still work out on a daily basis.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

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.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I run New York City!

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Sleep is the best meditation.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I’m much healthier now.

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.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.