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

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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

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.‘

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

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

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

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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.

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.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

I don’t exercise.

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.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

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.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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

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

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

How young can you die of old age?

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

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

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.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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.

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.

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

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.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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

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.

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

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

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

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