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

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

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

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

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

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

This way of life is worth defending.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

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

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

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.

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

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

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

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.

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.

How young can you die of old age?

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

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 take my sleep very, very important.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

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

I eat next to nothing.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

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

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

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.