The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
Ralph Nader

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
Calvin Klein

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep

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

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
W. H. Auden

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Robert Orben

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
Robert Orben

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Pythagoras

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

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Jean Piaget

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel