When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I think hygiene is so important.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

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.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

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.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.