As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

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.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

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.

Touring is hard on the body.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

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

I have little bones.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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.

Precaution is better than cure.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

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.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

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

Water is life, and clean water means health.

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

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.

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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

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

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

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

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.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Water is my drink.

I’m much healthier now.

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

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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.‘

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.