Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

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.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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.

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

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.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

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.

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.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

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

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

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

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 think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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.

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

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 never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

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

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

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

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

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

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

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.