It's the most difficult [decision] I've made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.