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.

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.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

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

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

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

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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

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.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

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

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

I have little bones.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

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

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.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

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

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.

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.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

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

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

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

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.

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

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.‘

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.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

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.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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.

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.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.