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

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.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

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

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

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

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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.

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.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

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

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

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

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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.

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.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

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

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

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

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

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

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

How young can you die of old age?