I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

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

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

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

I’m not sure how I’d survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must drink 20 cups a day.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

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

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

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.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Never get out of bed before noon.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

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.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.