All diseases run into one, old age.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

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

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

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.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

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

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

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.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Health consists with temperance alone.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

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

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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.

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.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Education is the best provision for old age.

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

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.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

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

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.