We never repent of having eaten too little.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Silence is safer than speech.

I can eat two large pizzas and a tray of brownies in one sitting. I’m not sharing that. We can get another one, but I ain’t sharing.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

I won’t eat anything green.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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!

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.