Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

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.

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

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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

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.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

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.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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

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

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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

I have little bones.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

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.

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

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

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 have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

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.

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.

I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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.

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

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.