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

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

I’m filthy rich!

We become what we repeatedly do.

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

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.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Rap was my drug.

I don’t care about money.

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

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.

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.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

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.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

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

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

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.

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.

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

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

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

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

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.‘

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

I love being active.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

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

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

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.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

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.

I eat next to nothing.

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

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

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.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.