“The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.”

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught and risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.

My wife is the best reason to come home.

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can’t move freely. I don’t know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.

Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I’m crazy, but that’s the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today.

Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human… No people will be truly free till all are free.

Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

There’s a great expression that says, “God is a jealous lover,” and it’s a very accurate expression that has nothing to do with whatever you see god or nature as.

I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It’s about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.