Hopefully, one enhances [when growing older] his sense of humor. As he approaches 50, he'll need all the humor he can get.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

There are Easter eggs in every book I've ever written. I think in the first one I called Scientology "Diabology," but I was scared, so I didn't tell many people what it really meant.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

The way to move out of judgement is to move into gratitude

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.