I think hygiene is so important.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

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.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

I eat next to nothing.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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.

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

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

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

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

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

Touring is hard on the body.

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.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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

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’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.‘

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.