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

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.

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.

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.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

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.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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.

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

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

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

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

Water is my drink.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

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

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I eat next to nothing.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Never get out of bed before noon.

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.‘

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.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

My son has died of AIDS.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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

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

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

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

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

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

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

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

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

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

I’m much healthier now.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.