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

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

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

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?

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

The path to enlightenment is when you allow presence, love and gratitude to overlap your ego.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?