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

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

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.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

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

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

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.

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

I’m much healthier now.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

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.

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.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Water is my drink.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

My music is a luxury.

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.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

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

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I’m very free-spirited.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.