Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Real food, I’ve found, is actually better than dieting.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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

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.

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

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I eat next to nothing.

The first wealth is health.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

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

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

An index is a great leveller.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Everything isn’t political.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

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

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.