The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Wrong partners cost much more money than bad financial investments.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I'm always after putting people in extreme circumstances. I'm always after not knowing what I'm doing in those extreme circumstances.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

Try to save something while your salary is small; it's impossible to save after you begin to earn more.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.