“Anybody is able to doubt me. I say, ‘Come with your criticism to polish the diamond of the truth.’ People need to wake up to their own power. Everybody has this nature.”

I think of the cold as a noble force.

I’m not afraid to die. But I’m afraid to not live.

I don’t bother with gyms, I just workout where I happen to be whether it’s in the garden or at home.

Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception.

I had to find the interconnection of my brain together with my physiology.

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

Yes, my teacher is the cold.

In the cold I centre myself and my breathing to transfer all my heat into the centre of my body.

I’ve done about anything I can fantasize about in the cold.

I’m able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of my metabolism.

We are built to be happy, strong and healthy. I fear not to live. We have everything to live up to our dreams. You have everything to achieve that, and in a very short period of time you can get all the tools to manifest who you want to be.

The whole medical industry wants us sick.

Sometimes you don’t know why but you feel attracted to do something.

On every birthday, I ask my wife, ‘What would you like this year?’ and her instant reply is, ‘Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!’

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamond’s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.

Bowie’s been a huge influence on me. I remember early on, my dad pulling out the ‘Diamond Dogs’ album, and the cover alone just grabbed my attention. I think I was probably around 12.

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Don’t open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.