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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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.

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

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.

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.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

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

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

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

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I have little bones.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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

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.

I love being active.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

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.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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.

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.‘

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

There is spontaneity to my work.

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

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.