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.

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.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

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.

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

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

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

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

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.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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.

I don’t exercise.

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

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

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.

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

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

How young can you die of old age?

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

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

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

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

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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

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.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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

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.

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 try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

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.

I take my sleep very, very important.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

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

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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

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.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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

The first wealth is health.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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.

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

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.

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.