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

Walking is man’s best medicine.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

I love being active.

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

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

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

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

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

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.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

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

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

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

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.

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

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

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

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

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

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

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.

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

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

The first wealth is health.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Precaution is better than cure.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

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

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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