From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

I’m not a bad person.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

A great man is always willing to be little.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

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.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

You have to be someone.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I focus on my own job.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Power is competence.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.