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

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

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

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

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

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

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.

This way of life is worth defending.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.