I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

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 think hygiene is so important.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

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

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

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

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.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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.

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.

The first wealth is health.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

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

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

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

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

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

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.

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

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.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

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

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

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

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.