I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

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.

The philosopher's school, ye men, is a surgery: you ought not to go out of it with pleasure, but with pain. For you are not in sound health when you enter.

I always have the time, the room and the energy for more love.

Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.

Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.