Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

My son has died of AIDS.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I take my sleep very, very important.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I think hygiene is so important.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

I have little bones.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

How young can you die of old age?

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.