“To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.”

There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

Before even considering an exercise and nutrition program, I recommend that the person put on some swim trunks and have somebody take a photo of them.

We would all be better off if our doctors took us aside, sat down next to us, and gave us this compassionate, yet universally true, warning,

Goals, on the other hand, are specific things you have decided you need to accomplish within a clearly defined period of time.

The foundation of success is intense desire.

Focus on progress not perfection.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

Most people are in favor of change, as long as they can continue to do things the same as they always have.

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, ‘We’ll have to take the eye out.’ …I fought like a tiger. I said, ‘No! Leave the eye alone.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains – the drab and dowdy digger in the earth.

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained – trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will be sporting a huge, self-inflicted and well-deserved black eye.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.