To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

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

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

Vaccination is a barbarous practice, and it is one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time.

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.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.