I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

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

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

My son has died of AIDS.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

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

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

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.