Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

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

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

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

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

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.‘

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

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.

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

My son has died of AIDS.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

I love being active.

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.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

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 drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

I became a beach bum.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

Rap was my drug.

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

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

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.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I take my sleep very, very important.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I’m much healthier now.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.