I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

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

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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.‘

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

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.‘

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

How young can you die of old age?

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

I take my sleep very, very important.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

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

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

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

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

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.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

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

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I think hygiene is so important.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

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.

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.

I want the world to see my body.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

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.

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

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.