He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

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

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

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

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

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

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

There is moderation even in excess.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

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.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

The first wealth is health.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

I just don’t have time to get old!

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Life well spent is long.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.