What is money? It is time. You traded your time for some money at some point. Now, you're just using that money to spend somewhere else. Time is the ultimate thing ... All the money that you have, you had to invest time into.

If you want to achieve your goals, if you want to move forward, if you want to actually become who it is you know you can become, there's no easy way of getting there. There's no shortcut. There's no hack. There is only discipline. That's it.

If the alarm clock goes off and you get up and get out of bed, it doesn't matter what you were thinking. It doesn't matter that you wanted to sleep in. It doesn't matter that you were like, oh, this sucks. None of that matters. Did you do it? Did you get up? And did you go?

If you're not motivated to do something, pretend that you are. Fake it. Because false motivation is better than no motivation.

You've got to do something to get control of your brain, of your mind. You got to check yourself. I don't care how you do it. I don't care if you set an alarm every 45 minutes so you can audit your thoughts, so you can audit what is influencing you.

You can't control other people. You can't make them what you want them to be. You can't make them who you want them to be. The only person you can control is you.

The precursor to exercise that would be an even more impactful thing in every aspect of your life would be discipline. I think it's the most important characteristic. The most important aspect of your life as a human being is to be disciplined.

Where does discipline come from? It comes when you make a decision to be disciplined.

The probability of any of us being here is infinitesimal. It can't even be calculated. It is so small ... The probability of your existence is so remote, we can't put a number on it. It's functionally zero.

A room full of kids, there's a guy in there, he's shooting. You go. There's not a debate. You go. That's what you do. You go. You go through the windows, you breach the doors, you do whatever you gotta do to get in there. That's what you do.

If you say to me, what kind of a world are we living in where we need to put armed guards in schools? I will say the United States of America. Do I like it? Do I like the fact that we have to do that? No.

Don't be over-nourished, and don't be under-nourished. Consume sufficient enough protein to support the anabolic activity of muscle. Derive sufficient micronutrients from your food—vitamins, minerals, things like that. Avoid toxins in food. That's about it.

If you are not paying attention, if you are on cruise control, then your mind is not under your own control. We can't be in cruise control. You can't let your mind be in cruise control. You have to be cognizant of what you're thinking.

The ego is so crazy. The ego so crazy people don't even recognize what's happening. They don't even recognize what's happening ... They can't even understand that ego blinds people so much ... They can't detach from it.

We simply can't accept the finite nature of our lives. And that's why he really uses this 4,000 weeks thing. It's a very jarring thing. I keep a calendar in my office on the wall with one block for each week. So, it's got 52 blocks per row and it's got 88 rows—assuming I'm going to live to 88, which of course there's zero guarantee I will—and every Sunday, I color in a block.

Police need more training ... 20% of working hours for police should be spent training.

Training people for stressful, dynamic, dangerous situations—and that's what we need to do with our law enforcement. We need to train them properly. Because we owe it to them. We owe it to our police and law enforcement to train them properly. We owe it to the law-abiding citizens of this country. And, of course, we owe it to the innocent children.

In 1955, there were 340 inpatient beds for every 100,000 people in America that needed mental health help. 340 beds for every 100,000 citizens ... In 2007, there was 17.

Exercise is this really potent drug ... It's doing so much every single time you pound it. You're getting an endorphin raise, you're getting an immediate response to your vascular system, it's changing your energy levels, it's allowing you to do things here and now that make you better. There's a psychological component when you do something that is difficult in the gym...

Don't beat yourself up if you miss your workout for a day, but just don't miss it two days in a row; just get back in the gym the next day. Don't worry about it ... If you go on vacation and eat like crap, come back and start eating well. Don't let a mistake spiral into infinite mistakes.