I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

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

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

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

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.‘

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

Water is my drink.

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.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

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

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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.

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.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

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

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

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.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

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.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.