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

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

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.‘

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Life well spent is long.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

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

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

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.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

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.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

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 had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

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

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

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.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.