Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

I became a beach bum.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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 crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

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

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

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

This way of life is worth defending.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

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.

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

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

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.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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 would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

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

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

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.

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

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

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.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.