Water is life, and clean water means health.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

There is nothing permanent except change.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Precaution is better than cure.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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

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

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

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

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

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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.

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.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

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.

I’m much healthier now.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

My life is my argument.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.