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.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

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.

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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.

It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

I don’t exercise.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

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

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

There is spontaneity to my work.

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

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Precaution is better than cure.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

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.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

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

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

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

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 sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

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

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

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

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.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

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

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

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

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

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.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.