As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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.

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

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

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

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

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

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

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

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.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

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

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

How young can you die of old age?

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

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.

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.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

I’m much healthier now.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

I have little bones.

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.

All diseases run into one, old age.

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.

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.

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.

I love being active.

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.

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.

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

A feeble body weakens the mind.