“I know my body. I know my mind. I know what I can do.”

I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.

I feel like I can control my own body as if I have a thermostat that I can adjust when I need to.

When there is no oxygen the muscles become acidic and we can’t perform any more.

That’s what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed.

Nature is so merciless – but so righteous.

Breathing and using cold, through cold showers and experiences, provides a boost of performance compared to anything that would be possible if the person had not done that.

Love is my mission.

As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it.

For me, God is cold.

Men need to laugh more.

I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.

I want people to find their inner depth.

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

It’s a great honour to have the nickname of Iceman, it makes me feel very proud of my achievements.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.