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.

Touring is hard on the body.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Water is my drink.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

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.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

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

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

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.

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

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

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

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.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

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

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

How young can you die of old age?

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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

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.‘

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

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.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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