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.

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

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

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

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

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.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

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

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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

There is moderation even in excess.

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.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

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.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

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.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

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.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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.

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

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.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

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.‘