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.

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

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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

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.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

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

My son has died of AIDS.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

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.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

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

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

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

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

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

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

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

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

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.

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.

I don’t exercise.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

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

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

The first wealth is health.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

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.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Health is certainly extremely important, and we’ve done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it’s not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy.

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.

Steak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.