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

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

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.

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.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

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.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

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

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

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.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

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.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

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.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I grew up cursing a lot.

The physical sensation of gliding with the wind in your face is exhilarating. That automatic activity of pedalling, when you have to be awake but not think too much, allows you to let subconscious thoughts bubble up, and things seem to just sort themselves out. And the adrenaline wakes you up if you weren’t properly alert.

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.

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

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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.‘

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

I’m much healthier now.

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.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I love being active.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

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.

The Internet is a big distraction.

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.

I have little bones.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

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

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.