To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I don’t snack. I don’t generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

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.

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

I won’t eat anything green.

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

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

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.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

I’m much healthier now.

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

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

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

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

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don’t know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Touring is hard on the body.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

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

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

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.‘

An army marches on its stomach.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

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.

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

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

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.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

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

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.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‚All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.‘

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

My son has died of AIDS.

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.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don’t have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn’t make much sense.

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it’s going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it’s 6. Done!

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

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.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.