I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

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

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‚Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.‘

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

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.

No one wants to see curvy women.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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.

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

I love being active.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I take my sleep very, very important.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

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.

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.

Mind over mattress.

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

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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

My fat never made me less money.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I’m very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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

Touring is hard on the body.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.