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 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.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

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

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

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.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Water is my drink.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

How young can you die of old age?

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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

The first wealth is health.

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

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

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

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

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

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

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.