“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

I’m bad for your health, like puttin’ a pistol up to your face and blastin’ yourself.

Guacamole is really healthy. It’s really good for your skin.

When you’re putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

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.