Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

All diseases run into one, old age.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.

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.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

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

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

I have allergies, and I’ve had my share of nosebleeds, but that’s usually related to pollen.

How young can you die of old age?

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

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

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 think hygiene is so important.

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

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

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.‘

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

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

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

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

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

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.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

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