"Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit."

"We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones."

"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship."

"We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore."

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

"If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place."

"For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop."

"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention."