I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Beware the hobby that eats.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Rap was my drug.

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.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I love movement. I love moshing.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

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.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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

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.

I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

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

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.