I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

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

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

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

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

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

Music is really driving my whole life.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

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.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I don’t exercise.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

I like to work.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

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

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

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

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

I wanted to write.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

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

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.