Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Success is not a stop sign.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?