I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don’t keep going.

I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

The problem is yes, everything works. Doing everything at once makes you marginal at everything... at best.

I said it was simple. Not easy.

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

I only judge people by the depth of their squat.

If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.

If something is important, do it every day; if it's not important, don't do it at all.

The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

Some believe to be spiritual, is to be always loving and shit... Being spiritual is taking no shit, by believing that your voice deserves to be heard if the deed is not satisfying your soul.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.