A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.

The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it.

Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour?

Being weak is a choice, so is being strong.

Continuity is how you build a physique.

To be successful in bodybuilding you have to be a good observer

Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, ’68, ’70, would you do things differently?

Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.

Victory occurs when you let God fight your battles.

It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

Obviously from 12-years-old to 16-years-old, your body changes and that's nothing to be embarrassed about, but boy I was!

Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.