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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

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.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

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

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

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

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

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

How young can you die of old age?

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

My son has died of AIDS.

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.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

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.

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

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

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

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

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

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

We should all start to live before we get too old.

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.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

I think hygiene is so important.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

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.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.