Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition.

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

Become more than what you were.

I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) would never say to anyone, ‘listen to me!’ because that is indeed not under his control.

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink, owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please.

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.