My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

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.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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

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

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I think hygiene is so important.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

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

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

How young can you die of old age?

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.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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

The first wealth is health.

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.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.