Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

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

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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

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.‘

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you’d quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

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.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I take my sleep very, very important.

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.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy 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.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I love being active.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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.

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

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

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.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.