Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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

You are victors, not victims!

I have little bones.

The first wealth is health.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

How young can you die of old age?

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

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

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

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

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Precaution is better than cure.

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

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

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.

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.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I eat next to nothing.

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

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

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.‘

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

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I don’t exercise.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

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

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.