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.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

The first wealth is health.

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

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

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

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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

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.

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

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

My son has died of AIDS.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

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

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

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.

How young can you die of old age?

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

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

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.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

I eat next to nothing.

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

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

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

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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 have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

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

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.

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 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.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

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.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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.

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.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

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

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.