Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

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

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

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.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

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

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

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.‘

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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

Water is my drink.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

All diseases run into one, old age.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Health consists with temperance alone.

My son has died of AIDS.

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

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

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.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

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 think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

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’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

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

There is moderation even in excess.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

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

How young can you die of old age?

I’m much healthier now.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

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

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

I take my sleep very, very important.

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

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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