Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

It's your decisions, not your conditions, which shape your life.

To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."