Health consists with temperance alone.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Rap was my drug.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

This way of life is worth defending.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

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.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

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

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Precaution is better than cure.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

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

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

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.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

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

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

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

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

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.