Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace..

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world..

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orlean….

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE..

When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of….

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny..

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed..

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has….

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death..

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula..

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything..

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense ….

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with..

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues..

I give people permission to be kids again..

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...….

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people..

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done..

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smi….

I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm sti….

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me..