You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Posing is a performing art.

Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.

The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump.

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.

They be like what's the formula? I be like kiss the Son, kiss your worries goodbye.

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.

I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.

One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.

[Calvin Trillin] was very "shoe," which means he was a big jock, a big deal.

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.