P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The older you get, the more you start to understand your body, so I try to just focus on my body every summer.

We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

I'm perfectly healthy.

There is nothing in the world like health. Live cleanly, and the high thinking will look after itself - or at least won't matter. Physical condition - there's nothing like it.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.

The first wealth is health.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

I really believe in being health conscious and trying to eat in a way that makes you feel comfortable. I've been working out since I was 17 or 18 years old. It's just a way of life for me. If I don't work out, I feel weird. It's just about what your routine is.

I'm a healthy girl.

Health is very important to me.

You can't take good health for granted.

The most important thing for me is health - you wake up in the morning, you can breathe, and you can walk.

Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.