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.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

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.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

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.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

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.

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.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

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.

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

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Honestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

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.

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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’m filthy rich!

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.

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 never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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

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.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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.

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

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.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Health consists with temperance alone.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

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.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.