Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

My son has died of AIDS.

History is more or less bunk.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

I love being active.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Money can’t buy life.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Mind over mattress.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

This is not a bad life.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

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

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.