Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

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.

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.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

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

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

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

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

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

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

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

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

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.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

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

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

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.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

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.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

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

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

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.‘

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.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

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.

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.

It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.