“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”

“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”

“The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan b. For those troubling occasions when plan b didnt work, he would strive to also have a plan c in place. In sho...”

“Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.”

“Leaders let go of what they can't control. It's a matter of knowing the power of the muscles and bones in your neck so you can go for what it can carry”