As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

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 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.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

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.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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

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.‘

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

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

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.

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

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Precaution is better than cure.

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

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

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

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

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

I love being active.

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.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

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

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.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

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

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

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.

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