I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Posing is a performing art.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

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

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

I've never had a surprise birthday party. I've had every other type of surprise. I've had surprise beatings, surprise drug tests, surprise daughter I think.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.

For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.