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

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

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

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

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.

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

I think hygiene is so important.

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

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 have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

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 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.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

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

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

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

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

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.

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.

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

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

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

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

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

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

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.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

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.

Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I have little bones.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

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.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

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

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

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

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

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

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.

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