So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

Punish the body to perfect the soul.

It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

Everything costs something everyone pays

Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

The secret is to create the condition for change, a process that sometimes takes decades, and then use certain men as pivot points, a fulcrum to move history.

In time you will see that you were exactly where you were supposed to be.

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.

What I have written, I have written.

Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.

I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.