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.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

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.

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

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

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

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

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.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

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

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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?

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

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

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

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

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

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

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

Precaution is better than cure.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Health consists with temperance alone.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

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

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

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

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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.

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.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.