The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.
I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.
