Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I eat next to nothing.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

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.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

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

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

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.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I think hygiene is so important.

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.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

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.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

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

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.