Health Quotes

‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.’ – Jiddu Krishnamurti

‘Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.’ – Billy Graham

‘To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.’ – Buddha

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

‘Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.’ – John Muir

‘It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.’ – Dr. Seuss

‘Health is not valued till sickness comes.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.’ – Hippocrates

‘Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.’ – Thomas Dekker

‘The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.’ – Carl Jung

‘Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.’ – Ralph Marston

‘The first wealth is health.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.’ – Denzel Washington

‘A healthy outside starts from the inside.’ – Robert Urich

‘I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.’ – Johnny Carson

‘I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.’ – Ellen G. White

‘The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

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

‘You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.’ – Paul Walker

‘The groundwork of all happiness is health.’ – Leigh Hunt

‘Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.’ – Plato

‘Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.’ – William Penn

‘Your body hears everything your mind says.’ – Naomi Judd

‘It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.’ – Epictetus

‘The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.’ – Paracelsus

‘Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.’ – Fred Rogers

‘Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.’ – Marilu Henner

‘Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.’ – Redd Foxx

‘America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘A healthy attitude is contagious but don’t wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘There’s nothing more important than our good health – that’s our principal capital asset.’ – Arlen Specter

‘It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.’ – Og Mandino

‘I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.’ – Spike Milligan

‘The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.’ – Mary Baker Eddy

‘The body is a sacred garment.’ – Martha Graham

‘My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.’ – Kiana Tom

‘It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.’ – Jackie Mason

‘You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.’ – Courtney Thorne-Smith

‘Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.’ – Frederick Buechner

‘It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.’ – Phil McGraw

‘My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘The wish for healing has always been half of health.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘America’s health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.’ – Tom Harkin

‘Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland

‘The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.’ – Philip Sidney

‘As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?’ – Chanakya

‘I’m exhausted trying to stay healthy.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn’t each person give his life for his calling?’ – Clara Schumann

‘Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a lot of pressure for people. But honestly, I think as long as someone is healthy, that is most important.’ – Jennifer Lopez

‘Happiness lies first of all in health.’ – George William Curtis

‘I eat really healthy, and if I’m tired, I take a nap.’ – Casper Van Dien

‘I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.’ – Bob Barker

‘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.’ – Hippocrates

‘If you’re happy, if you’re feeling good, then nothing else matters.’ – Robin Wright

‘I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don’t exercise and do the other two, I still don’t think it’s going to help you that much.’ – Mike Ditka

‘People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.’ – Henrik Ibsen

‘Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.’ – Mark Twain

‘I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look – that healthy equals beautiful.’ – Victoria Principal

‘I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it’s fine.’ – Mike Piazza

”Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It’s important at all ages.’ – Jerry Hall

‘I believe that if you’re healthy, you’re capable of doing everything. There’s no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.’ – Pedro Martinez

‘I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.’ – Gloria Swanson

‘The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life.’ – Francesca Annis

‘Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.’ – James Taylor

‘As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.’ – Sallust

‘I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.’ – Ann Bancroft

‘Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying… Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.’ – Ivan Illich

‘A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.’ – Robert Foster Bennett

‘At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you’re not in the right place where you need to be, then you’re going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.’ – James Allen

‘Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I’m not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.’ – Lexa Doig

‘Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.’ – Carl Jung

‘When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.’ – Annette Funicello

‘I love working out. It’s my release. I’ve done it since I’ve been in the military.’ – Robert Irvine

‘If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we’ll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I’m there trying to do it.’ – Yoko Ono

‘But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.’ – George A. Smith

‘Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.’ – George Bernard Shaw

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

‘The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.’ – David Suzuki

‘Health consists with temperance alone.’ – Alexander Pope

‘A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.’ – Rowan Williams

‘I’ve made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.’ – Picabo Street

‘The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘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.’ – Joel Osteen

‘There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.’ – Esther Williams

‘The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.’ – Jean Kerr

‘Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.’ – Buddha

‘Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.’ – Hippocrates

‘I stand before you a totally healthy person.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.’ – Henry St. John

‘I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.’ – Lorna Luft

‘I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.’ – Harold Wilson

‘We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Healthy people live with their world.’ – Anne Wilson Schaef

‘You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.’ – Mike Ditka

‘The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘I’m still healthy as can be.’ – Darrell Royal

‘The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.’ – Michelle Obama

‘The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.’ – Mark Twain

‘All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.’ – John Locke

‘Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.’ – Keanu Reeves

‘Water is life, and clean water means health.’ – Audrey Hepburn

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

‘Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.’ – Mahalia Jackson

‘Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.’ – Lao Tzu

‘Climate change is the greatest threat to humanity, perhaps ever. Global temperatures are rising at an unprecedented rate, causing drought and forest fires and impacting human health.’ – Cary Kennedy

‘He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.’ – Plautus

‘It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.’ – Barack Obama

‘Social media is both a dark and brilliant thing for mental health.’ – Fearne Cotton

‘I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.’ – Sanam Saeed

‘Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.’ – Rod Blagojevich

‘Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.’ – Epicurus

‘Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.’ – Richard Carmona

‘To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.’ – Brennan Manning

‘New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people’s health. And this goes beyond the traditional burden of childhood infectious diseases.’ – Seth Berkley

‘AI will impact every industry on Earth, including manufacturing, agriculture, health care, and more.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘We’re losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet’s health and our own.’ – Diane Ackerman

‘If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.’ – Chuck Pagano

‘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.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘The true index of a man’s character is the health of his wife.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.’ – Kate Middleton

‘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.’ – Fidel Castro

‘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.’ – Albert Einstein

‘As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.’ – Ronan Keating

‘Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called ‘bad’ for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they’re detrimental to our health.’ – John Rampton

‘Every single one of us deserves access to quality, affordable health care.’ – Sara Gideon

‘Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘So if people have an opportunity for a decent job, a decent education, a decent health care system and security, I know that forceful migration will be reduced to zero.’ – Nayib Bukele

‘Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein

‘Mental health can be just as important as physical health – and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.’ – Michael Greger

‘Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.’ – Matthew Walker

‘The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.’ – Mark Hyman

‘To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one’s longevity and health.’ – John Williams

‘Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.’ – William Hazlitt

‘Happiness is good health and a bad memory.’ – Ingrid Bergman

‘Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘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

‘View health as an investment, not an expense.’ – John Quelch

‘You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘Health and hygiene are a basic personal need for all.’ – Manushi Chhillar

‘To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.’ – Richard Baker

‘Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.’ – James Altucher

‘There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.’ – Vikram Patel

‘The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Obesity affects every aspect of a people’s lives, from health to relationships.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.’ – Malik Yoba

‘As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.’ – Dan Rather

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

‘Don’t ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that’ll get you a million dollars – your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don’t go crazy, make sure I help my family.’ – Future

‘I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.’ – Stephen Curry

‘Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.’ – Patrick Henry

‘Without your health, you’ve got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.’ – Ric Flair

‘To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.’ – Gene Tunney

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

‘Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.’ – Neil Gaiman

‘Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘Public health depends on winning over hearts and minds. It’s not enough to just have a good policy, you have to convince people to actually follow it.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘If we don’t figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we’re not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.’ – Tim Wise

‘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.’ – Florence Nightingale

‘Renewable energy could reduce emissions but also create jobs and improve public health.’ – Paul Polman

‘The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.’ – Karl Marx

‘If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.’ – James P. Hoffa

‘Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.’ – William Foege

‘Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.’ – Johannes Brahms

‘As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.’ – Frederic Chopin

‘We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don’t have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.’ – Michael Pollan

‘It’s like any other part of your body – your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.’ – Olly Alexander

‘Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago

‘I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.’ – Maria Montessori

‘There are two drawbacks to steroids, one is the potential problems with your health and the second one is it is very easy for people to dismiss everything you have put into it by saying, ‘yeah but he takes steroids.’ – Dorian Yates’ – Dorian Yates

‘Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.’ – John F. Kerry

‘The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.’ – Eddie Bernice Johnson

‘Improved maternal health benefits the whole of society.’ – Isabella Lovin

‘Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer’s most precious asset. A farmer’s productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.’ – Howard Warren Buffett

‘The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.’ – Samuel Butler

‘You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don’t have your health, you have nothing.’ – Steven Adler

‘By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.’ – Bill Gates

‘Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘I don’t walk around looking into cameras and telling people I’m the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packages of cigarettes, and fighting Chael Sonnen may be hazardous to one’s health.’ – Chael Sonnen

‘Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.’ – Saint Basil

‘Family, nature and health all go together.’ – Olivia Newton-John

‘Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when.’ – Neal Katyal

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

‘You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.’ – William Temple

‘Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘Enjoying outdoor recreation is not only good for physical health, but also for improving mental health, and I encourage everyone to explore some of the beautiful opportunities our state has to offer, particularly at those smaller, less explored state parks.’ – Ned Lamont

‘I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.” – Pele

‘The olive tree is a tree full of health. It is a symbol of eternity. Of all things, it has peace attached to it.’ – Carol Drinkwater

‘All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They’re also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘Healthcare is a human right. No one should face bankruptcy or death because of lack of healthcare. All Americans – regardless of their health or residential status – should be able to access the healthcare they need, whenever they need it.’ – Deb Haaland

‘All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.’ – Reba McEntire

‘Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.’ – Lois Capps

‘Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.’ – Mike Quigley

‘America’s health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.’ – Paul Gillmor

‘For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.’ – Owen Arthur

‘The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.’ – Diane Abbott

‘Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.’ – Louise Hart

‘To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.’ – Roger Ebert

‘We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.’ – Ben Carson

‘Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth.’ – Seth Moulton

‘The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That’s just a story that we tell ourselves.’ – Matthew Quick

‘Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our ‘infrastructure’ – highways, buildings, power plants, etc.’ – Kathi Appelt

‘Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.’ – Azim Premji

‘An accurate census is critical to our democracy and to our economy. It underpins fair representation in government and allows us to ensure that our communities receive equitable funding for schools, roads, health care, and much more.’ – Alex Padilla

‘The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.’ – P. T. Barnum

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

‘We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.’ – Joan D. Vinge

‘Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.’ – Robert Redford

‘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.’ – Colin Powell

‘We must all work together if we’re going to solve the nation’s maternal health crisis, and Democrats and Republicans agree that helping ensure mothers and babies are healthy and whole keeps our families strong and helps our communities thrive.’ – Raphael Warnock

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

‘Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.’ – Angela Rayner

‘Amaravati will be a world-class capital. It will be a health and tourist destination.’ – N. Chandrababu Naidu

‘The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.’ – Chuck Norris

‘Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.’ – James Thomson

‘Public health is a powerful tool to level that playing field, to bend the arc of our country away from distrust and disparities and back towards equity and justice.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.’ – Bobby Scott

‘After doing a juice cleanse, I’m motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I’m putting into my body. I’m making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.’ – Salma Hayek

‘Without your health, everything else means nothing.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.’ – Richard Lamm

‘I’m not into animal rights. I’m only into animal welfare and health. I’ve been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the ’70s. We’re a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I’ve worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!’ – Betty White

‘Man’s constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.’ – Jules Verne

‘In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.’ – Alexander Pope

‘You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.’ – Andrew Weil

‘Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we’ve come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.’ – Tom Frieden

‘Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies cannot make them; they are crucial for early brain development, and there is much evidence that they promote cardiovascular health and cognitive function.’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘I take a massage each week. This isn’t an indulgence, it’s an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘You certainly can’t prevent all mental health problems – factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone can take steps to improve their mental health and prevent further mental illness.’ – Amy Morin

‘Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.’ – Mike Rounds

‘I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn’t at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can’t get to the right answer here.’ – Donald Berwick

‘What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.’ – Jim Elliot

‘The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.’ – Josh Fox

‘I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.’ – Kamala Harris

‘Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.’ – Luke Richardson

‘I don’t have anything to prove to anybody else other than myself and my supporters and my loved ones, so if my health is good, I’m going to go out there and kill it.’ – Roman Reigns

‘It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti – and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera… which can spread like wildfire in Haiti… This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.’ – Paul Farmer

‘The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.’ – Adam Goodes

‘It’s just health. They call it mental health, but your brain is part of your body. It’s an injury. You just can’t see it.’ – Mardy Fish

‘Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.’ – Adam Ant

‘If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.’ – Kris Carr

‘Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations.’ – Henry Giroux

‘We take our health for granted until something awful happens.’ – Robson Green

‘Drinking water to quench thirst instead of sugar-sweetened beverages is important for weight control, and overall health.’ – Margaret Cuomo

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

‘The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average lifespans. Canada, Sweden, and Iceland – places with inhospitable winter weather – are frontrunners in sustaining human health and life.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘The Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants will create clean- energy jobs, improve public health, bring greater reliability to our electric power grid, bolster our national security, demonstrate the United States’ resolve to combat climate change and maybe even reduce our utility bills.’ – Martin Luther King III

‘I decided to write ‘True Refuge’ during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.’ – Tara Brach

‘Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.’ – Bernie Siegel

‘Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.’ – Buddha

‘There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.’ – Howie Mandel

‘We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.’ – Matt Haig

‘Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.’ – Paul Stamets

‘There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.’ – Josh Billings

‘People are ready to say, ‘Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.’ We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.’ – Studs Terkel

‘Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.’ – Aphra Behn

‘A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.’ – James H. Douglas, Jr.

‘A woman’s health is her capital.’ – Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.’ – Lamar Alexander

‘I’m at the point in my life where I don’t want to work as hard. Actually, I’ve had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it’s effect on one’s mental health.’ – Alan Ball

‘Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.’ – Kapil Dev

‘America doesn’t have health insurance.’ – Joe Biden

‘Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.’ – Ric Keller

‘In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women’s rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.’ – Kate Nash

‘I worked on becoming a better person and nurturing what I’ve been blessed with, improving my skills and taking care of my health and beauty.’ – Heart Evangelista

‘If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.’ – Bill Frist

‘Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.’ – David Suzuki

‘Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘I’ve always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.’ – Franklin Pierce Adams

‘Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons – these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.’ – Pete Earley

‘The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.’ – Ha-Joon Chang

‘Health care has gotten really weird politically. We’ve sort of tied ourselves in knots on this issue in a way that we don’t do… for criminal-justice reform or tax policy or climate policy.’ – Brian Schatz

‘It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you. We’re willing those to you. Are you ready?’ – John Morgridge

‘The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.’ – Chester A. Arthur

‘The results of inequity and bias impact everything from suspension rates, to housing access, to health outcomes, to medical interventions, to job opportunity and promotions, to criminal sentencing, and even to the very safety of the water one drinks and air one breathes.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can’t put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.’ – Monty Don

‘Beyond ensuring that people everywhere have access to mental health, virtual digital assistants can act as learning companions, using their insight into what motivates and inspires you, to help you study and learn. In this way, AI could be used to level the playing field in education and help narrow socio-economic gaps around the world.’ – Rana el Kaliouby

‘I believe that investing in our children’s development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.’ – Avicenna

‘Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.’ – M. S. Swaminathan

‘I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘Women in America must be trusted to make their own medical decisions and have access to the full range of reproductive health care, including abortion.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘It’s all about culture. If you can get the right people with the right mindset, the right core values and the ability to change on a dime, then you have the ability to invest and do what’s best for the health and long-term value proposition of the business.’ – David Steward

‘Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.’ – Jessica Capshaw

‘I’ve always enjoyed poor health.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘You can’t fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can’t wake up and say, ‘Today I’m not being depressed!’ It’s a process to get well, but there is recovery.’ – Margaret Trudeau

‘We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.’ – Richard Rohr

‘The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.’ – Tim McGraw

‘One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘It is my dream that Chinese medicine will help us conquer life-threatening diseases worldwide and that people across the globe will enjoy its benefits for health promotion.’ – Tu Youyou

‘We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.’ – Roger Goodell

‘Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.’ – Ed Pastor

‘Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women’s reproductive health needs to be protected.’ – Ann Richards

‘Health is a worldwide public good. It requires global action guided by a sense of global solidarity.’ – Abiy Ahmed

‘If some consumers believe that it’s better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.’ – Norman Borlaug

‘Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.’ – Charles Boustany

‘Broccoli is not as bad as people make out. It might give you wind, but I’d prefer to have wind and have good health. Health is the number one thing on the planet. However, I am quite partial to rum and raisin ice cream.’ – Chris Eubank Sr.

‘We know that the way to decrease unplanned pregnancies and abortions is to make birth control and family planning services accessible and affordable, not micromanage the type of medical information and reproductive health counseling that women around the world receive.’ – Jeanne Shaheen

‘Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.’ – S. Jay Olshansky

‘I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don’t get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don’t get ill.’ – Andre Rieu

‘Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.’ – Cris Carter

‘A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.’ – Gilbert Highet

‘Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you can proactively cultivate emotional well-being through relatively simple practices like sleep, social connection and meditation.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.’ – Matt Cartwright

‘Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant – I don’t know if that’s the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.’ – Sally Schneider

‘One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.’ – Judith Faulkner

‘A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.’ – Daniel Akaka

‘We all have to go one day. So I just want God to bless me with good health.’ – Randhir Kapoor

‘TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.’ – Tom Petty

‘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

‘I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.’ – Mark McGwire

‘After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.’ – Barack Obama

‘God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.’ – Joel Osteen

‘As an environmental engineer who spent the early part of my career cleaning up groundwater contamination, I know firsthand the challenges of cleaning up contaminants and the risks posed to human health if we fail.’ – Chris Sununu

‘We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure.’ – Bob Menendez

‘I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up because – well, at least where I grew up – it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.’ – David Lynch

‘I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.’ – Tipper Gore

‘Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.’ – Mandy Moore

‘My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.’ – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

‘Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.’ – Thomas R. Insel

‘I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.’ – Tom Frieden

‘The health of democratic nations themselves depends on listening to and considering other perspectives.’ – Phil Scott

‘A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.’ – Clarence Day

‘As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what’s known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.’ – Christy Turlington

‘Mental health and physical health are one in the same for me – they go hand in hand. If you aren’t physically healthy, you won’t be mentally healthy either – and vice versa. The mind and body is connected and when one is off, the other suffers as well.’ – Kelly Gale

‘My health and my family are the core of my being.’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘The outdoors, exercise, sunshine, and fresh air are all good for people’s immune systems and health, and not so great for viruses.’ – Zeynep Tufekci

‘Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘Planned Parenthood is an organization that does not provide quality health care.’ – Abby Johnson

‘Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘In the political confusion and the torrid heat, I convinced myself that Madrid was the world’s stomach and that I had been chosen for the task of restoring this digestive organ to health.’ – Leonora Carrington

‘The moment you design the post of a HR manager in the police, your whole outlook towards your team changes. You designate an official to look after their health, their professional needs, their preparedness and motivation, which in most cases becomes quintessential.’ – Kiran Bedi

‘There’s definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it’s rewarded.’ – Jon Ronson

‘Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my driver’s license, health insurance card and Washington Post business card with my husband’s cellphone number and message to call him in an emergency.’ – Jonathan Capehart

‘America’s doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.’ – Mike Ferguson

‘We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the ‘mental health club’ that our well-being more truly requires.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Sometimes overwork and travel take a toll on my health but I am alert and take precautions; I have learnt to deal with it. I take rest whenever I have time.’ – Rohini Hattangadi

‘In order to improve maternal health, we have to focus on improving all women’s health and access to care – not just during labor and delivery, but before and after pregnancy, and throughout our lives.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.’ – Plutarch

‘With broadband access, we can revolutionize global access to education, health care, economic empowerment, and the delivery of critical human needs.’ – Tae Yoo

‘Health to the ocean means health for us.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman’s side during childbirth.’ – Liya Kebede

‘Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.’ – Theodor W. Adorno

‘If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.’ – Alex Ferguson

‘In order to lead a country or a company, you’ve got to get everybody on the same page and you’ve got to be able to have a vision of where you’re going. America can’t have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations – can’t have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It’s got to have a vision.’ – Jack Welch

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

‘Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.’ – George Herbert

‘Women’s health needs to be front and center – it often isn’t, but it needs to be.’ – Cynthia Nixon

‘Gut health is everything, it’s the second brain, where many of our hormones are produced.’ – Tess Daly

‘It’s so important that we all speak up on mental health.’ – Anne-Marie

‘I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn’t much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.’ – Rita Rudner

‘Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.’ – Christopher Dodd

‘There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health – genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson’s. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats – everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.’ – Bill Maris

‘It’s been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.’ – Jonah Lomu

‘I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘Health care is much the same – the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people – and we must not shrink from the challenge.’ – Michael Bennet

‘We must invest in affordable housing, quality education, safe parks and green space, good paying jobs, comprehensive mental health and trauma services, and other supports that will help all of our people.’ – Cori Bush

‘When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.’ – Ntozake Shange

‘Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it’s getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It’s an ongoing problem. It’s not like we can fix it, and it’s over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.’ – Anthony Fauci

‘I’ve been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I’ve tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.’ – Margaret Hamburg

‘Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans – the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.’ – Patty Murray

‘Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.’ – Jim Bunning

‘Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone’s physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.’ – Theodore Isaac Rubin

‘In economic terms, health care is a highly successful industry – profitable, growing, and virtually recession-proof – but it’s a massive burden on the rest of the economy.’ – Marcia Angell

‘Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor – which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘I always tell people that health is the first wealth.’ – Rev. Run

‘The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.’ – Rick Tumlinson

‘I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.’ – Michelle Obama

‘I’m thankful for my family’s health, that everybody’s healthy. That’s something that can be taken for granted, so I’m grateful for that.’ – Ayesha Curry

‘It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.’ – Terry Eagleton

‘I’m active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘You do burn out, going from job to job. You have to be careful of your mental health and your body.’ – Sarah Greene

‘I’m sure that the standard of public morality we’ve helped build will force government in Canada to approve complete health insurance.’ – Tommy Douglas

‘State and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.’ – Ron DeSantis

‘And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.’ – Julie Bishop

‘I think of fitness as being about heart health and staying strong and agile. That actually makes me go to the gym. I used to hate it, and you couldn’t drag me there, but now I can’t stand it if I don’t go, which seems weird.’ – Sutton Foster

‘The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.’ – Sam Harris

‘The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat – they all play a key role in our health.’ – Jorge Cruise

‘We dragged the National Health Service from the depths of degradation. I’ve got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it and it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor and a Nigerian registrar.’ – Dennis Skinner

‘I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.’ – Ron Wyden

‘One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar’s health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.’ – Mary Antin

‘I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others.’ – Jessie Pavelka

‘For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.’ – Walter Rudolf Hess

‘Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy – it’s a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘I won’t say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It’s always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.’ – Raymond E. Feist

‘Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.’ – Stephen LaBerge

‘I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘I don’t think healthcare’s a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.’ – Adam Carolla

‘Cynicism is humor in ill health.’ – H. G. Wells

‘People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I’d say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.’ – Benjamin Spock

‘Look, if you have somebody who doesn’t have health insurance, who doesn’t have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room – in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Health and wellness does mean different things to different people.’ – Denise Morrison

‘Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.’ – Allen Klein

‘There’s no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I’d build a Medicare for All system.’ – Chris Murphy

‘If you’re truly serious about your physique and health, in totality, I think you need to pull out all stops. You need to really just hone in on that warrior within.’ – Luke James

‘We don’t know what our health care costs are going to be. We don’t know what our tax rates are going to be. We don’t know what our interest rates are going to be. We don’t know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government’s agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.’ – Jim Renacci

‘Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.’ – Elaine Chao

‘Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. as a society and as an industry – we’ve made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.’ – Bruce Broussard

‘By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!’ – Tom Allen

‘We don’t come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.’ – Prince Philip

‘We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best – save lives – but also because they confer a real benefit to America’s economy.’ – Albio Sires

‘I’ve spent half my life in gyms, if not more, and I love physical fitness and health; couple that with the fact that I love for people to be healthy, whether it’s mentally, physically, or emotionally, and it’s just a great opportunity for me to do something I love and have an impact on people’s health.’ – Steve Nash

‘The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.’ – Niki de St. Phalle

‘I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.’ – Cat Cora

‘Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.’ – Rex Tillerson

‘The care economy impacts all of us: our children, elderly loved ones, family members with disabilities, child care workers, home health aides, nurses, and so many more. Care is something we all need, at different stages in our lives.’ – Jamaal Bowman

‘I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.’ – John Cameron

‘Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.’ – Brad Schneider

‘The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.’ – Paul Farmer

‘Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.’ – Moby

‘We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn’t reimburse us on any of these things.’ – Jan Brewer

‘To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.’ – Buddha

‘The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘Our welfare and health services must work for everyone. That means ensuring that all the help and support is wrapped around the person when they need them, not trying to make the person fit the system.’ – Penny Mordaunt

‘Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls’ opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country’s development shrink. These are real people.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it’s contributed to better health care, that it’s contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.’ – John Warnock

‘I’ve been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always.’ – Sissy Spacek

‘Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.’ – Richard Gere

‘From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.’ – Tom Chatfield

‘Everyone has the ability to increase resilience to stress. It requires hard work and dedication, but over time, you can equip yourself to handle whatever life throws your way without adverse effects to your health. Training your brain to manage stress won’t just affect the quality of your life, but perhaps even the length of it.’ – Amy Morin

‘Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.’ – Amy Sedaris

‘While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.’ – Michael Pollan

‘I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘There is no excuse for using someone’s mental health as a stick with which to beat them.’ – Luciana Berger

‘For whatever reason, maybe it’s because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.’ – Lance Armstrong

‘I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.’ – Amanda Peet

‘I wish all happiness, good health and togetherness to those close to me.’ – Shriya Saran

‘To continue to grow as a group and create music, our health should always be the No. 1 priority.’ – Jeongyeon

‘Mental health isn’t all of me, but it’s a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.’ – Adwoa Aboah

‘Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.’ – Ben Shapiro

‘It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘I had a friend who was getting married. I said, ‘You’re getting married – I didn’t know about all this!’ She said, ‘I need health benefits.” – Nancy Pelosi

‘Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What’s the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?’ – Tom Sturridge

‘We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.’ – Barbara Lee

‘I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.’ – Junipero Serra

‘Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.’ – Nathan Deal

‘I’ve always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it’s been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.’ – Richard Linklater

‘You can’t just think about economy or health. There needs to be a balance between the two.’ – Uddhav Thackeray

‘Being accountable to myself to achieve consistent health and wellness moving forward is on me.’ – Al B. Sure

‘When you start fooling around with drugs, you’re hurting your creativity, you’re hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don’t kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul’s dead, you’ve got nothing to offer, anyway.’ – Paul Stanley

‘Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.’ – Chuck Norris

‘If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.’ – Hippocrates

‘I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.’ – Tony Shalhoub

‘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.’ – Bill Gates

‘In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.’ – Knute Nelson

‘I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don’t want people to have to suffer. It’s as simple as that.’ – Neil Peart

‘But I know that trying to black out my past with oblivion will just damage my future. I made the decision to stop running from my fears, and to walk slowly and deliberately towards self-nurture, self-respect, and better mental and physical health.’ – Jack Monroe

‘The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.’ – Johnny Carson

‘If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn’t cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.’ – Jack Lew

‘The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease – it’s really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘As musicians and artists, it’s important we have an environment – and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.’ – Lauryn Hill

‘If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we’ll have them tomorrow.’ – Kathy Ireland

‘It’s not okay to be fat – not because of the way you look, but because it’s unhealthy. I have experienced hormonal problems, bad skin, immense laziness, and back and knee pain. It’s not fine to be too fat or too thin! Anything in extremes is wrong. I am afraid of putting on weight because I don’t want to develop health problems.’ – Sonam Kapoor

‘I want to show everyone in this world that the soul is the source of our happiness, strength and health. Love actually comes from the soul, from the light.’ – Wim Hof

‘My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.’ – Johnny Iuzzini

‘Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.’ – Paul Stamets

‘If we can speed up the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries with investments from the Green Climate Fund, hundreds of millions of people will be able to access electricity for the first time – with all the education, health, communication and entrepreneurial opportunities electricity enables.’ – Ed Davey

‘I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.’ – Kate Middleton

‘As long as I’ve got my life, health and strength, and I’m in my right mind? I’mma get money.’ – E-40

‘I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.’ – Leighton Meester

‘Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.’ – Roger Babson

‘We need commonsense measures, gun control measures, that save lives. I think that it is important that we keep the firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill and criminals and terrorists. And I also think, by strengthening our background check system and expanding mental health treatment, we can do that as well.’ – Catherine Cortez-Masto

‘As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.’ – Bill Toomey

‘I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat – and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.’ – Dennis Prager

‘My mental health was getting really bad in the military and so the doctors decided not to renew my contract and advised me to take a break.’ – Bella Poarch

‘We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.’ – Jerome K. Jerome

‘I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Health is never going to go out of fashion.’ – Magnus Scheving

‘Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don’t want to talk about it because somehow they feel they’re a failure as a parent or, you know, they’re embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.’ – Anna Wintour

‘I have a lot of respect for PM Narendra Modi, as he works hard day and night and doesn’t sleep more than 4 hours. So I am thinking of gifting him chewing gum, as he will chew that and will take rest and take care of his health.’ – Manoj Bajpayee

‘Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.’ – Florence Nightingale

‘The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.’ – Tom Frieden

‘Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.’ – Daphne Oz

‘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

‘We went through substantial periods of being dependent on some type of government service, whether food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, children’s health insurance. And I had an acute awareness as a child of what happens when people go without access to health care. I also had an acute awareness that people’s lives were not valued the same.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.’ – Jamie Oliver

‘Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.’ – Don Kardong

‘I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.’ – Alberto Fujimori

‘Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.’ – Margaret Chan

‘We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it’s a public health issue, a safety issue.’ – Sarah Brady

‘The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.’ – Vernon Howard

‘Beauty is health. Health is beauty.’ – Andre Leon Talley

‘What’s just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement – while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘The pharmaceutical industry isn’t the only place where there’s waste and inefficiency and profiteering. That happens in much of the rest of the health care industry.’ – Marcia Angell

‘It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one’s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.’ – Clive Barker

‘We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don’t do these things, we shouldn’t be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.’ – Pete Buttigieg

‘Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.’ – Elie Metchnikoff

‘I’m going to announce in the very near future, I’m going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance.’ – Terry Branstad

‘I’m 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.’ – Hulk Hogan

‘I’ve run my whole life – for more than exercise, for mental health.’ – Wendelin Van Draanen

‘To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don’t sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting its long-standing egalitarian culture and spirit of communitarianism – a spirit that extends to its prisons.’ – Michelle Alexander

‘I’ve always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you’re capable of taking risks. You’ll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You’ll have more energy to be a better mom. You’ll feel more deserving of love.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘Health food makes me sick.’ – Calvin Trillin

‘I’ve been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.’ – John McLaughlin

‘Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs’ true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.’ – Larry Elder

‘The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.’ – Dave Obey

‘President Obama famously promised that the Affordable Care Act would not only slow the growth in health care costs, but would also reverse these trends, making the average health insurance plan cheaper. That isn’t happening.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘I believe – I clearly believe that government-run health care will be bad for you as a patient. It will be bad for you as a taxpayer.’ – Rick Scott

‘You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland

‘We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it’s meaningful, then it’s sustainable – and a meaningful life is a longer life.’ – Dean Ornish

‘The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else – there is no other way.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.’ – Hilda Solis

‘The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein

‘When you are in prison, you have but one desire: freedom. If you fall ill in prison, you do not think about freedom – you think about health. Health is, therefore, more important than freedom.’ – Alija Izetbegovic

‘Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.’ – Bernard Hinault

‘Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘It begins and ends with money. It’s absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It’s obscene.’ – Kathleen Turner

‘The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I’m just now learning. But it’s not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it’s not that they try to make you compromise your art. That’s not the problem.’ – T Bone Burnett

‘For me, health, education, and spirituality should never be commercialised.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.’ – Rob Portman

‘Mental health can be nasty but there is light at the end of the tunnel!’ – Kerry Katona

‘Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.’ – Mireille Guiliano

‘As top players, we earn a lot of money, but sometimes we pay a hefty price with our health. I would give away all the money to be healthy again, to be able to do my job. To do what I love: to play football.’ – Marco Reus

‘If compassion is so good for us, why don’t we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they’re supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?’ – Joan Halifax

‘As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.’ – Michael Greger

‘What I believe we need to do is to be the smartest, the healthiest, the fairest and the most prosperous nation on earth. So in order to become the healthiest nation on earth, we need a different health care system.’ – Julian Castro

‘Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘I think public awareness of how good vaccines are for kids and how they are good for public health is a great idea.’ – Rand Paul

‘Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.’ – Ami Bera

‘In capital we trust. Capital is our savior, our holy grail, our fountain of youth, or at least health, for banks.’ – Bethany McLean

‘We focus on cultivating lifelong health and wellness, rather than a quick fix.’ – Joshua Rosenthal

‘I think everyone must practice yoga, especially during this time of COVID-19 pandemic to decrease stress and anxiety. It not only helps our physical health but also helps in maintaining a good mental health.’ – Jasmin Bhasin

‘You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That’s not what this is about to them.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.’ – Atul Gawande

‘I’m not really known for my health approach.’ – Jock Zonfrillo

‘The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out – spill out. A machine must have care and its different parts must be adjusted properly. No machine has ever approached the human machine. When it is right, it is in health.’ – George Matthew Adams

‘I’ve never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I’m never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.’ – Patch Adams

‘And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.’ – Barack Obama

‘After my diagnosis at age 22 with leukemia, the second piece of news I learned was that I would likely be infertile as a result of chemotherapy. It was a one-two punch that was my first indication that issues of cancer and sexual health are inextricably tied.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we’re helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.’ – Bobby Jindal

‘I’ve always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument. I just don’t think spraying a lot of pesticides into the environment on a routine basis is a good thing.’ – John Mackey

‘The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.’ – Leroy Hood

‘Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better – they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.’ – Andrew Young

‘People don’t flee their homes because they want to, people flee their homes because they feel they have to. Why? Because they don’t have a job, because they are being threatened by gangs, because they don’t have basic things like water, education, health.’ – Nayib Bukele

‘I didn’t leave TV for films; I left it due to health issues. I wasn’t keeping well, and I was losing weight due to the long working hours.’ – Barun Sobti

‘When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.’ – Yu Chui Yee

‘To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.’ – Mardy Fish

‘Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.’ – Samuel Butler

‘Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you’d better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘A lot of times, we tend to be reactive instead of proactive. I encourage my readers to be proactive with their life and health.’ – Tabitha Brown

‘Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn’t pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?’ – Peter Diamandis

‘It’s clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘You don’t have to be a wreck. You don’t have to be sick. One’s aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.’ – Jeanne Moreau

‘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.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Extra weight – whether it’s physical, emotional, or spiritual – holds us back from our health and our potential. Overeating is a behavior caused by stress, depression, excitement, fun with friends, self-sabotage, and countless other feelings, emotions, and circumstances. There can always be an occasion to eat and overeat.’ – Tara Stiles

‘The Affordable Care Act was passed in large part because of recognition that our nation’s health care system is not working. The act is not perfect, but it is a starting point, and we have been using it to improve the health of Coloradans.’ – John Hickenlooper

‘The paradigm of the ‘Aquarian Conspiracy’ sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society… The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.’ – Sandra Fluke

‘We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive – undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and undermining peaceful societies.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.’ – M. S. Swaminathan

‘Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use… It’s time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.’ – Neal Barnard

‘Walking is magic. Can’t recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps… this is a primal way to connect with one’s deeper self.’ – Paula Cole

‘We didn’t exist. Ronald Reagan didn’t say the word ‘AIDS’ until 1987. I’ve tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men’s Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.’ – Larry Kramer

‘If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.’ – Kamala Harris

‘Harriet Washington, in ‘Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,’ documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.’ – Greg Grandin

‘Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they’re consumed to bedtime.’ – Maria Konnikova

‘I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.’ – John Adams

‘Once a Dinamo Zagreb coach saw me while I was eating a pizza and severely scolded me, telling me that I would be fat, I had to think about my health. In response, I ordered 10 pizzas and managed to eat 5, so next time he will have a strong think before treating his players in a bad way.’ – Mario Mandzukic

‘Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination – these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I actually think gaming is amazing for your mental health.’ – Asim Chaudhry

‘Every person is unique and there is no one size fits all solution to health or fitness. I am not a medical professional and your health and safety is the utmost importance.’ – Chloe Ting

‘Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.’ – Jan C. Ting

‘Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.’ – Mehcad Brooks

‘It is imperative that we address the barriers to access and the systemic racism that we know is contributing to our astronomically high maternal mortality rates. The onus must be on the health care system to make necessary changes.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other.’ – Iskra Lawrence

‘I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.’ – Denis McDonough

‘I’m very straightforward on immigration. The bus is full. We haven’t got enough energy, we haven’t got enough electricity, we haven’t got enough of a health service.’ – Noel Edmonds

‘Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.’ – Vaclav Smil

‘You can never turn the clock back and, since we’re talking about mental health, I would stress that.’ – Peter Shilton

‘Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.’ – Kenneth Frampton

‘The great equalizer is health. If you don’t have it, you’re screwed.’ – Jami Gertz

‘For me, it always has to be about health. That’s why I’m a vegan. Well, I don’t even do that for my health entirely, I do it for animals.’ – Emily Deschanel

‘The Swimsuit competition hasn’t ever been about being sexy. It’s about showcasing your dedication to your health and fitness and how you exude confidence.’ – Shanna Moakler

‘High-quality food is better for your health.’ – Michael Pollan

‘We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Loneliness is also associated with a shorter lifespan.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.’ – John Sharp

‘In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.’ – Patricia Cornwell

‘Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let’s talk about the patient. The patient doesn’t need a war.’ – Donald Berwick

‘I’ve realised that doctors can only help change a certain number of patients, but a Minister of Health can really change things.’ – Leo Varadkar

‘I look at four things in my life: finance, work, relationships and health. I strive for balance.’ – Tony Adams

‘Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.’ – Mark Twain

‘Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.’ – Caroline Lucas

‘President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.’ – Liya Kebede

‘Zumba is world-wide, respected and it’s about health. It’s something that you really didn’t expect from me. People have been blown away to find out that Zumba and I have partnered up.’ – Lil Jon

‘But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation’s economic viability.’ – Jim Clyburn

‘Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush’s austere budget for the next fiscal year.’ – Arlen Specter

‘Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘My main goal is to stay healthy because when you’re injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.’ – Maria Sharapova

‘The main thing is that it’s nice to see these young people – 9 to 14 years old – take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.’ – Rafer Johnson

‘We need to transform our system so people know what they are paying for health care, so they know whether they are getting good quality health care, and so they have a reason and ability to care.’ – Alex Azar

‘Nature, God, Buddha – someone has given me this health. I can break dance still; I can run; I can play basketball. In my mind, I can do anything. As long as I have that spirit, I’m going to keep doing it.’ – James Hong

‘We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘Most Christian ‘believers’ tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.’ – Richard Rohr

‘Americans, like many citizens of rich countries, take for granted the legal and regulatory system, the public schools, health care and social security for the elderly, roads, defense and diplomacy, and heavy investments by the state in research, particularly in medicine.’ – Angus Deaton

‘In the first three years of life, the foundations of physical and also of psychic health are laid. In these years, the child not only increases in size but passes through great transformations. This is the age in which language and movement develop. The child must be safeguarded in order that these activities may develop freely.’ – Maria Montessori

‘Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 – that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.’ – Mae Jemison

‘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.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘Despite Arizona’s remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.’ – Jane D. Hull

‘You can’t just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, ‘I took my aspirin so I’m not going to have a heart attack.’ It’s really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can’t keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.’ – Corbin Bernsen

‘I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.’ – Frank Bruno

‘A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.’ – Sydney Smith

‘There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast.’ – Moby

‘I’m very confident my health isn’t going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world’s longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don’t use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.’ – Dan Buettner

‘Liberals are wrong to think that opposition to health reform is a rejection of big government. If health reform consisted of extending Medicare to everyone, people would be delighted. There are millions of 64-year-olds out there who can hardly wait to be 65.’ – Marcia Angell

‘An inspiration – a long, deep breath of the pure air of thought – could alone give health to the heart.’ – Richard Jefferies

‘Every philanthropist has a soft corner for one issue. For me it is health, because my father was a doctor.’ – Sudha Murty

‘America’s veterans deserve the very best health care because they’ve earned it.’ – Jim Ramstad

‘There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well – that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.’ – Monty Don

‘I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.’ – Kazuo Ishiguro

‘Within weeks of the Ebola hoax dying down, the guys at Health Africa International approached my friends George Weah, Mahamadou Diarra, and I to be part of the initiative in using various forms of communication to promote a Ebola prevention education programme.’ – Michael Essien

‘I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.’ – Harold Ford, Jr.

‘I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I’m at Mass. My mother always said, ‘We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people’s health, we pray that God’s will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.” – Nancy Pelosi

‘It’s not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can’t escape this bubble from being on our phones and tablets.’ – Ben Fogle

‘When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it’s amazing.’ – Hill Harper

‘I don’t know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women’s reproductive health.’ – Jackie Speier

‘Chhath is made up of two Hindi words – ‘Chah,’ indicating six stages and ‘Hath’ representing the act of austerity. The vratti observing this strict fast is believed to acquire solar energy in six different stages. It is one of the most scientific puja known to mankind and offers a host of health benefits.’ – Amrapali Gupta

‘Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest – based on the Christian tradition but not often preached – is that you can’t enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.’ – Thomas Keating

‘At 46 years old, I can no longer afford take my health for granted.’ – Cynthia Bailey

‘We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.’ – Benjamin Jowett

‘Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They’re convinced that we wage war simply because we don’t know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.’ – David D. Burns

‘Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning.’ – Donella Meadows

‘Health is a precious gift. You realise more and more as you get older just how precious a gift it is.’ – Judith Durham

‘The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘I really see that socio-economic constraints and pressure contribute to our mental health in a big way. You come to realize that it’s all mental health.’ – Chantal Kreviazuk

‘The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.’ – Anacharsis

‘We are a wealthy country. We also are the global engine of innovation in health care, whether it’s the pharmaceutical industry or the creation of medical devices.’ – Ron Williams

‘I definitely find myself, as I get older, a lot more aware and concerned with the health of the sport.’ – Dale Earnhardt Jr.

‘The first step in empowerment is taking control of your health, respecting yourself and understanding and celebrating the value you bring to your family and society.’ – Milind Soman

”Whole Women’s Health’ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

‘It’s important for moms, but also dads, to recognize that they’re role models when it comes to their kids’ physical health, when it comes to working out, and when it comes to nutrition.’ – Dominique Dawes

‘I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don’t ask for anything, except for health.’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It’s exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health.’ – Emily Oster

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

‘I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.’ – Tyson Fury

‘We must ensure full access to all reproductive health services, including abortion. We must also provide for our aging population, ensuring our parents and grandparents have the care they need. We must defend Medicare, expand Social Security, and provide tax credits for families who care for their elders and loved ones with disabilities.’ – Deb Haaland

‘I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘I think there’s strength in being honest and open about yourself and your struggles. But it can also be a challenge. This is my life, I live with my own mental health, and that is happening to me every day. I can talk about it from a position of ‘Oh, I’ve done this’ but I’m still living that existence.’ – Olly Alexander

‘Education, transportation and health care was what I ran and won on. That’s what we’re going to be focused on.’ – Tony Evers

‘Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.’ – Jim DeMint

‘The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people’s personal and social worlds.’ – Vikram Patel

‘The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.’ – Tom Frieden

‘My mom is spiritual, and she always starves herself in the name of fasting. I don’t like it. I always fight with her for not taking care of her health, and say that God has nothing to do with starving. But she knows how much I love her.’ – Raghava Lawrence

‘Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!’ – Paul Stamets

‘I’m very passionate about mental health and wellness as part of the journey.’ – Justin Kan

‘We need to see more resources in the combination of public safety and public health but we have to use our dollars wisely.’ – Michelle Wu

‘So I can’t show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.’ – Paul Farmer

‘We need mental health counselors in every school that needs one.’ – Tim Ryan

‘Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don’t get the care they need and deserve, and the police can’t get on with the job they are trained to do.’ – Theresa May

‘If you’re worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it’s almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘President Obama, through health care reform, strengthened Medicare. How did he do that? Well, he found savings by cutting subsidies to insurance companies, ensuring we were rooting out waste and fraud, and he used those savings to put it back into Medicare.’ – Stephanie Cutter

‘In America, you keep on hearing productivity is low; secular stagnation, it’s a new normal. It’s just not true: We’ve had multiple wars; we’re not educating our kids. We had government shut downs, badly-spent money, failures in the health system, failures and an extreme amount of regulation – that’s why we’re going slow.’ – Jamie Dimon

‘I think sleep is probably the neglected stepsister in the health conversation today. I think we’ve done a good job regarding physical activity and diet, but sleep has remained out there in the cold, and that’s surprising to me.’ – Matthew Walker

‘When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.’ – Gwen Moore

‘True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘Mental health is a continuum, and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum.’ – Amy Morin

‘Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.’ – Chuck Berry

‘Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing anything isn’t something I’ve been too big on since I was young.’ – Colin Kaepernick

‘Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.’ – David Boreanaz

‘To protect our country’s economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past.’ – Michael Bennet

‘Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.’ – Ivan Illich

‘We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.’ – Richard Lamm

‘Weirdly enough, the best thing for my mental health was giving into my innate nature to work. And the most depressed I get is when I try to restrict it, like, ‘I don’t work weekends’ or ‘I don’t work this day.” – MrBeast

‘In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?’ – Bill Gates

‘A bright future for the nation depends on the health and prosperity of rural America.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘I guess I’m the happiest when I’m picking up my kids from school. The most important things on my list are my wife and kids and my health. Happiness is having a family you love.’ – Phil Hellmuth

‘I hope I’ve contributed something to the mental health field. But I hope people will think – I’ve had so many wonderful opportunities, I tried to take advantage of them.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘I believe that ‘Food is a giver.’ It gives you nutrition, health, and at times can give you recognition, like it did in my case, and you got to treat it with that kind of respect.’ – Ranveer Brar

‘It’s not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.’ – Ezra Klein

‘When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.’ – Amartya Sen

‘Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities.’ – Rob Wittman

‘Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.’ – Lucy Powell

‘I admire companies that give back to communities. It is an absolute essential for organizations to watch, mitigate, and improve their impact on the environment, people, communities, their health and overall well-being. But this is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.’ – Shiv Nadar

‘Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least eight hours a day, every day. My health suffered for it – I was losing sleep and not eating properly.’ – Yngwie Malmsteen

‘I’m one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.’ – Carter Burwell

‘The pathway to a more sustainable future for all children must include access to the basic building blocks of good health, including nutrition, water, and immunizations.’ – Seth Berkley

‘There’s this company called Vega that sponsors us, and basically, what it is is a vegan health optimizer. But really it’s a protein shake that has all the vitamins, all the enzymes, all the minerals, all the carbs, all the proteins… everything that you need to set yourself for the day.’ – Alissa White-Gluz

‘Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.’ – Julie Bishop

‘I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘I’m nutty for nutrition. I’ve become one of those people who can’t stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can’t stop proselytizing.’ – Robin Quivers

‘We need to put a priority on environment, health, and safety protections.’ – Katie McGinty

‘Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like ‘customers’ who can and should demand quality care.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘You think about someone’s well-being or someone’s health as obviously being way more important, than any sporting event you could win.’ – Denny Hamlin

‘The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.’ – Ben Carson

‘What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.’ – Annie Besant

‘The International Health Partnership Plus is addressing the need to harmonize development assistance and reduce the current waste, duplication, and high transaction costs.’ – Margaret Chan

‘Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.’ – Elizabeth Edwards

‘I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others’ stories in my film ‘No Woman, No Cry,’ and in various writings and talks about maternal health.’ – Christy Turlington

‘I want to be around to see my son grow up and to enjoy my grandkids, which means I need to make my health a priority.’ – Regina King

‘Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it’s never Trump’s responsibility. It’s never Trump’s fault.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.’ – Brian Skerry

‘I’m a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.’ – Alan Thicke

‘Public health relies on public trust. Admitting mistakes and explaining prompt corrective actions engender that trust.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.’ – Thomas R. Insel

‘If you don’t protect the NHS, you’re going to have health ghettoes where people can’t get treated.’ – Toyah Willcox

‘For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems – but I knew she wanted to be married.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.’ – Joan Jett

‘After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Health care is a need; it’s not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you’re very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you’re not sick, you shouldn’t have a lot of it.’ – Marcia Angell

‘We’ve built, drilled, and shipped indiscriminately across our oceans, with little consideration for the natural environment that is critical to the health of many of our other ocean uses, like food and recreation.’ – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

‘I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country – people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You’ve got to be more worried about your own people.’ – Hugo Chavez

‘Health care has a lot of interesting machine-learning problems – outpatient outcomes, or when you have x-ray images and you want to predict things.’ – Jeff Dean

‘Having health insurance made me feel like a real person. Up until then, it felt like I was getting away with something, and if three things went wrong, it would all fall apart.’ – Greta Gerwig

‘Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.’ – Clint Eastwood

‘Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and ‘Drag Race’ is a family, and we support our family members through anything.’ – Trixie Mattel

‘Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.’ – Phil Knight

‘Polygamy is needed to prevent a man from taking up a lover, which can cause health issues and rifts in the family and would lead him to live a lie, constantly deceiving his wife and children.’ – Ramzan Kadyrov

‘Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.’ – Harley Pasternak

‘It’s almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I’m perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.’ – Tig Notaro

‘If we ensure access to health care and ‘best practice’ asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all – not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.’ – Rick Scott

‘A New Way of Life is a safe house that women can come to after they’re released from prison in South Los Angeles. It’s a place for women to detox the trauma, the torture of incarceration, be welcomed and embraced and live and begin their new path to – if it’s recovery or receiving mental health services, go back to school, get their children back.’ – Susan Burton

‘A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.’ – Elaine MacDonald

‘We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.’ – Cesar Chavez

‘Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early – so early interventions are essential.’ – Angela Rayner

‘The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn’t operate in this region. It’s difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we’re surrendering it all at the same time.’ – Paul Hawken

‘If someone has a fantastic biology background, he or she can contribute in AI and health care. AI has many aspects.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.’ – Kate Middleton

‘No one wants to fail. So most of us don’t even try. Sad. We don’t even take that first step to improve our health or to deepen our working relationships or to realize a dream.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘I’m looking at my own risk of diabetes and holding myself accountable for my health. I’m asking others to do the same.’ – Rev. Run

‘Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It’s as big a political issue as health care is.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘We have a disease care system, not a health care system.’ – Matthew Heineman

‘The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘I damaged my health during ‘Les Mis,’ which I didn’t want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.’ – Anne Hathaway

‘Mental health doesn’t care what your name is or what you do for a living.’ – Mardy Fish

‘Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.’ – Dina Titus

‘No matter where they live or how much money their parents make, every child deserves access to high-quality health care.’ – Sara Gideon

‘It’s vital that someone with a mental health issue is given the chance to open up to someone and discuss how they’re feeling, to help relieve the pressure they may be keeping to themselves.’ – Penny Mordaunt

‘Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure.’ – Paul Stamets

‘The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there’s no question that it is a factor, but it’s preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.’ – Jane Fonda

‘I want to drive down health care costs.’ – Chris Gibson

‘The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.’ – John Kennedy

‘AIDS is a plague – numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health – though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.’ – Larry Kramer

‘Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don’t smoke – these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.’ – Tom Frieden

‘For me, the way I go about training all of my clients is by using short bursts of interval training – it’s the most effective for burning calories as well as for cardiovascular health and making you stronger.’ – David Kirsch

‘Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.’ – Robert Southey

‘I’m a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. I’m a Buffalo wing magnet, a sandwich fanatic, a cheesesteak guy. But I’ll only get a cheesesteak in Philadelphia. No one else does it right.’ – Kevin Hart

‘Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you’re not healthy. You can’t appreciate it.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.’ – John Mackey

‘We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I don’t think that I am a Lefty in the sense that I grew up in countries that have a universal health-care system, but I also think that I’m a little Right in other directions. I also think that – in regards to the whole health-care thing – that yeah, they should repeal and replace Obamacare with universal health care.’ – Jim Jefferies

‘We strive for equality and equality in mental health matters as much as anything else. I see it as an imperative, not a choice.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.’ – Jennifer Holliday

‘The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don’t have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don’t have access to good health care.’ – George J. Mitchell

‘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.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘My Dad is my hero. He’s 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn’t have been luckier with my parents.’ – Harry Connick, Jr.

‘The belief that public health measures are not intended for people like us is widely held by many people like me. Public health, we assume, is for people with less – less education, less-healthy habits, less access to quality health care, less time and money.’ – Eula Biss

‘The health of our republic depends on shared principles like the First Amendment, but it is also built on the Teddy Roosevelt-like vigor of its citizens and local self-reliance.’ – Ben Sasse

‘If Obama raises my company’s taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I’ve got 30 employees, that means I’m going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.’ – Chuck Norris

‘Seeing the body heal itself and come back from injuries is something that just makes me value my body and health even more. I love everything about it.’ – Jamie Anderson

‘The bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic health drink in a brightly coloured bottle at an inflated price.’ – James May

‘Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today’s surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.’ – Ralph Merkle

‘While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.’ – Eliot Engel

‘No matter what is happening in life or in the world – war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones – if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘As a former local health official, I can tell you that local health departments are chronically understaffed and do not have the capacity to analyze scientific reports and synthesize them into policies and regulations.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.’ – Lionel Trilling

‘The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety. I’m very interested in how we deal with that.’ – Matthew Quick

‘Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we’ll tend to be healthier people anyway, we’ll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we’ll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.’ – Queen Latifah

‘Health is very important to me.’ – Niki Taylor

‘I think the important thing to understand about the free pony program is, of course, it is an absolutely free pony program, uh, there may be some incidental costs involved with pony social security or universal pony health care or the haystamp program so ponies won’t starve in the streets.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘The myriad of serious health risks resulting from poor diet include high cholesterol, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and even sleep apnea.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.’ – Rohit Shetty

‘I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.’ – Barack Obama

‘With a lot of hair and make-up then I’m possibly, remotely attractive. But it’s rare, I don’t think I’m ugly but I’m nothing particularly special. I’m not a yoga and health girl. I don’t exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.’ – Lisa Marie Presley

‘It’s never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.’ – Jennie Garth

‘Health and education are always issues.’ – Helen Clark

‘Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.’ – David Perlmutter

‘The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.’ – Harry A. Blackmun

‘Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.’ – Ivan Illich

‘One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.’ – Andrew Weil

‘As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don’t recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It’s important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Since my battle with fibroids, I have become a health advocate. I workout, and with the help of genovive.com, I make better food choices in my daily diet.’ – Cynthia Bailey

‘For several years I followed a macrobiotic diet and I counseled and taught others to follow these principles to improve their health. I experienced improved health so I truly believed my clients would too. I got very mixed results.’ – Joshua Rosenthal

‘The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.’ – Paul Gillmor

‘The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.’ – Esther Duflo

‘The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.’ – Seth Berkley

‘I work in an industry in which we’re all quite vulnerable, I think, to mental health.’ – Josh O’Connor

‘Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years – about twice as long as other bears – between having cubs. And after they’re pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night’s sleep.’ – Carl Honore

‘The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.’ – James Heckman

‘The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.’ – Linus Pauling

‘I feel fit and well – I know that I have to look after my health, but turning 30 is no reason to start considering the end of my career.’ – Manuel Neuer

‘Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people’s quality of life.’ – Vikram Patel

‘When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which it’s created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.’ – Kenneth C. Griffin

‘In health care, the biggest imperative is: Fix those who cannot get insurance without changing the world for everyone else.’ – Eric Massa

‘A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children’s own education.’ – Azim Premji

‘I feel blessed that I haven’t seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents’ health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.’ – Salman Khan

‘Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about – worthy, dull. Something you should ‘have’ to read / write about.’ – Caitlin Moran

‘Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.’ – Sharon Lawrence

‘America tolerates a heavy toll from the flu on health and productivity. But if Covid becomes a twin risk, the heath-care system will struggle to fight both at once.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘It’s been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘I like juices and antioxidants. I’m a health nut.’ – Trudie Styler

‘Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.’ – Sylvia Mathews Burwell

‘In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the underlying foundation for growth: energy, transportation, health and sanitation, and communication.’ – Rajeev Suri

‘At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘Some people don’t like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn’t a big deal.’ – Limmy

‘The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.’ – Warren Farrell

‘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

‘I gave myself the nickname ‘Bipolar Rock N’ Roller’ way back in the 1990s, when – as much as we don’t talk about mental health now – back then it was almost nonexistent. And if it was broached, it was done in a very pejorative way.’ – Mauro Ranallo

‘When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. ‘Has he had his medical checkup?’ He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, ‘Maybe that’s why I’ve been so obsessed with his health!” – Cate Blanchett

‘Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.’ – Joel Robuchon

‘Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.’ – Paul Stamets

‘If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Sleep is essential for the body and mind and restful sleep is one of the foundations of good health. Recharging and rejuvenating body and mind sufficiently every night is important for better quality of life.’ – Milind Soman

‘Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.’ – Michael Pollan

‘Since losing my health, I also feel strongly about making each new day worthwhile.’ – Yolanda Hadid

‘Mainly I’m a vegan because I like animals, and I don’t want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it’s better for my health and for the environment.’ – Moby

‘Gut health is the key to overall health.’ – Kris Carr

‘Maintaining good health should be the primary focus of everyone.’ – Sangram Singh

‘Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.’ – Tony Dungy

‘Over and over, nature shows that it’s a really tough adversary. That’s why it’s important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.’ – Tom Frieden

‘In my life as an immigrant living in low-income communities, as an emergency physician and as a public health advocate, I have seen more preventable deaths than I can count or recall.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘Temporary is all you’re going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I’m telling you about. That’s eternal health care, and it’s free… I’ve opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.’ – Phil Robertson

‘Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.’ – Jens Martin Skibsted

‘The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.’ – Steve Forbes

‘If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.’ – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

‘It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.’ – Kate Smith

‘You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, ‘I feel good, I have my health, and I’m so blessed.’ That’s the way I choose to look at it.’ – Isla Fisher

‘As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, ‘I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.’ Now, they tell me, ‘I want to be president just like you.’ All of us can dream as big as we want.’ – Michelle Bachelet

”Green’ issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.’ – Tryon Edwards

‘Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.’ – Kate Middleton

‘Weight isn’t a factor in nutritional health.’ – Melissa Etheridge

‘The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.’ – David Satcher

‘In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it’s the mother who’s the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz

‘I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone when talking about women’s health care issues, when we talk about pro-life and pro-choice.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don’t know any other single factor that affects our health – for better and for worse – to such a strong degree.’ – Dean Ornish

‘I’m witnessing the problems that the federal government is passing down in terms of drones, in violation of our civil liberties, spying on our citizens, death panels in the form of the government taking over the health care system and the national debt they’re just saddling our grandchildren with.’ – Matt Rosendale

‘There’s absolutely no reason why we should continue poisoning our children’s health with processed foods.’ – Eric Adams

‘I’ve done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It’s great for your mental health, and it’s great for setting up a nice year.’ – Rose McIver

‘We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.’ – Paul Ryan

‘Mental health is invisible, but it’s a very real issue.’ – Coco Gauff

‘The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people’s basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland

‘Statistics on the dangers guns pose to the health of their owners and those who live with them suggest that I’d be safer selling my guns than reserving them for ‘Tombstone II.” – Walter Kirn

‘The Iowa Women’s Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the first place.’ – Michael Greger

‘For Republicans, tort reform and its health care analogue, malpractice reform, speak to the goal of stronger economic growth and lower costs.’ – Bill Bradley

‘It’s not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing a trillion dollars to it.’ – Marcia Angell

‘Cerner’s focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.’ – Neal Patterson

‘Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.’ – Billy Graham

‘I have appeared on ‘The Dr. Oz show’ and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.’ – Joel Fuhrman

‘America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced – and met – tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.’ – Christopher Bond

‘The Postal Service is essential to our democracy, economy, and health care system.’ – Alex Padilla

‘When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.’ – Sarah Hyland

‘Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.’ – Liya Kebede

‘We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.’ – London Breed

‘The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.’ – Paul Gillmor

‘When cattle ranchers clear rain forests to raise beef to sell to fast-food chains that make hamburgers to sell to Americans, who have the highest rate of heart disease in the world (and spend the most money per GNP on health care), we can say easily that business is no longer developing the world. We have become its predator.’ – Paul Hawken

‘Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.’ – Mason Cooley

‘In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can’t otherwise reach healthcare facilities.’ – Christy Turlington

‘But if you’re asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.’ – Paul Farmer

‘No one should have to worry about whether they can afford the health care that one day might save their life.’ – Mazie Hirono

‘I’ll tell you what I’m grateful for, and that’s the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.’ – Kenneth Branagh

‘We can be thankful President Barack Obama is taking aim at one of the prime causes of climate change and extreme weather: air pollution. The EPA’s carbon pollution standards are the most significant step forward our country has ever taken to protect our health by addressing climate change.’ – Donna Brazile

‘I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.’ – Wagner Moura

‘Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.’ – Vikram Patel

‘I am more interested in health, quality of life, longevity and how training and nutrition affects that as you get older.’ – Dorian Yates

‘Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.’ – George Soros

‘Im focussing very much on having a plant-based diet, Ive given up alcohol, and Im exercising every day. And that includes being outside every single day, just to also exercise for my mental health.’ – Anna Richardson

‘We have to see that we’re a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.’ – Michael Moore

‘True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.’ – Mehmet Oz

‘Health care organizations don’t ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.’ – Judith Faulkner

‘The number one thing I will take with me is my experience as a social worker who saw what happened to families who couldn’t find jobs, struggled to take care of their health and saw opportunity slipping away for their kids. I ran for Congress because politicians were fighting with each other instead of looking out for these families.’ – Kyrsten Sinema

‘There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘Women deserve better. They deserve the freedom to make their own health care choices.’ – Suzan DelBene

‘Well, many Blacks who are vegan are vegan for health reasons. They believe in putting the right food in their bodies. And they are reluctant to be attached to some who have been extremely aggressive in the animal rights movement.’ – Eric Adams

‘The fact that my environment influences my life so much – and that my environment is in my control – gives me a great sense of empowerment over my health and my life.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to America’s sense of decency and compassion. Democrats also believe that it will lead to a healthier and more productive country.’ – Bill Bradley

‘In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘What needs to happen in a public health crisis? The federal government must establish a national roadmap with clear goals and evidence-based policy guidance.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.’ – Jean Paul

‘If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

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

‘My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.’ – Chiang Kai-shek

‘The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.’ – Ashley Montagu

‘There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.’ – Francis Bacon

‘The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.’ – Holbrook Jackson

‘Writing is hard work and bad for the health.’ – E. B. White

‘It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.’ – Martin Farquhar Tupper

‘Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.’ – Ovid

‘Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.’ – Comte de Lautreamont

‘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

‘Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, ‘I’ve got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.’ Yeah, that’s always the sign of a man in good health, isn’t it?’ – David Letterman

‘You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.’ – Judith Viorst

‘Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.’ – Barbara Boxer

‘America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can’t afford it, access it and doctor’s can’t provide it.’ – Bill Frist

‘As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day – like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.’ – Bill Richardson

‘Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.’ – Carl Levin

‘There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can’t provide health care to all its people.’ – Christine Gregoire

‘It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.’ – Christopher Bond

‘One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you’re on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it’s running away.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.’ – Blanche Lincoln

‘We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, ‘the best in the world.” – Tim Johnson

‘Ask any woman and she’ll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.’ – Rod Blagojevich

‘Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘Whether it’s making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.’ – Blanche Lincoln

‘Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.’ – Jon Kyl

‘Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.’ – Mike Crapo

‘The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.’ – Mary Landrieu

‘Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers – both public and private – who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.’ – Susan Collins

‘Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.’ – Mark Dayton

‘Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.’ – Christopher Bond

‘For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.’ – Ben Nelson

‘Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.’ – Ron Wyden

‘Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It’s far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.’ – Russ Feingold

‘Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.’ – Dianne Feinstein