I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.
I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.
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.
You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment.
It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.
Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.
Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.
