The dieting wars have got to stop.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

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

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

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

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.

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 look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

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.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

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 briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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 best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

I’m much healthier now.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.