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

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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

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

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

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.

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

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

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

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

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.

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.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I think hygiene is so important.

The first wealth is health.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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.

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

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

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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

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.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

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.

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

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

My son has died of AIDS.

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.

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.

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.

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

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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

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

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Health consists with temperance alone.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.