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

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

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

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

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 was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I think I’ve committed the one really bad English crime, which is I’ve risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I’m claiming that I’m an artist of some kind.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

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

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

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

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

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

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.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

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.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about 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.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

Precaution is better than cure.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

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

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

I have little bones.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

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

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

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.

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