The Gunnar Challenge offers new workouts every day, a meal plan and daily 'verbal vitamins,' which are a motivational video or workout tip. The thing that really makes the program work is the forum, where Challengers can communicate with each other and with me.

Constant deprivation is no way to live. Don't always skip the delicious stuff for raw carrots and brown rice.

Try not to make every eating transgression at once. When I go out, I won't ever do both dessert and drinks. Just pick one.

Home workouts are great, but if you can get out, that's even better. If you tell yourself you're going to go do planks in the spare bedroom, you might get interrupted and not get your workout in.

Protein helps your insulin levels not spike and helps you not store your food as fat.

When I opened my gym, I got rid of the scales! Stepping on a scale empowers an inanimate object - every time you get on it, you turn over the helm of your emotional well being to something that doesn't care about you.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.