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.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

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.

The first wealth is health.

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

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

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

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

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

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

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

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

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

I have little bones.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

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.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

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

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

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

Health consists with temperance alone.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

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

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I love being active.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

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