I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

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.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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.

I don’t exercise.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Water is my drink.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

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

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

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

Work ends up dehumanizing people.

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

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

How young can you die of old age?

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

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.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.