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.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

I take my sleep very, very important.

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.

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels… try it!

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

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

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.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

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

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

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

We may define therapy as a search for value.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

People want to feel hopeful.

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.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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.

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

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

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

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 like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

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.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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.

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.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

Working out anchors my day.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.