The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

My three children have brought me great joy.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.