“Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.”

“The barbells and dumbbells you hold in your hands and the way you use them have stories to tell.”

“Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique.”

“Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity.”

“The application of consistent, logical effort, over a prolonged period is the key to reaching your physical muscular potential.”

“It is often said that mankind needs a faith if the world is to be improved. In fact, unless the faith is vigilantly and regularly checked by a sense of man's fallibility, it is likely to make the world worse. From Torquemada to Robespierre and Hitler the men who have made mankind suffer the most have been inspired to do so have been inspired to do so by a strong faith; so strong that it led them to think their crimes were acts of virtue necessary to help them achieve their aim, which was to build some sort of an ideal kingdom on earth.”

“To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.”