Health

In my humble judgment, the dietary is the principal point in the treatment of Corpulence, and it appears to me, moreover, that if properly regulated it becomes in a certain sense a medicine.
~ William Banting, Letter On Corpulence, Addressed to the Public. Fourth Edition (1869).

Obesity seems to me to have been very little understood or properly appreciated by the faculty and the public generally, or the former would long ere this have hit upon the cause for so lamentable a disease, and applied effective remedies, whilst the latter would have spared their injudicious indulgence, in remarks and sneers, frequently painful in society, and which, even on the strongest mind, have an unhappy effect.
~ William Banting, Letter On Corpulence, Addressed to the Public. Fourth Edition (1869).

The simple dietary evidently adds fuel to corpulent fire, whereas the superior and liberal seems to extinguish it.
~ William Banting, Letter On Corpulence, Addressed to the Public. Fourth Edition (1869).

There has long been debate about the usefulness of prostate cancer screening because some forms of the disease are slow growing and they will never be an issue for the patient. ... But because prostate cancer in African-Americans is generally not slow growing, the combination of early diagnosis and effective treatment should be particularly beneficial.
~ William Barrett, Reuters (2 December 2002). U.S. study: Black men lag in cancer treatment

The body only profits a little from exercising but the spirit profits a lot.
~ Billy Blanks, Trinity Broadcasting Network (Interview; 22 March 2001). Praise The Lord

The Red Cross is definitely opposed to compensating blood donors first and foremost because that would be a step in the wrong direction with respect to the safety of America's blood supply.
~ Bill Blaul, Minnesota Public Radio (30 July 2001)

We have several thousand trained mental health workers. It's our most rapidly growing disaster service ... helping people emotionally heal. Especially in air disasters, but in this kind of disaster as well. Not just on a spot basis, but to help people recover over the longterm.
~ Bill Blaul, The Washington Post (11 September 2001). Breaking News: Attacks on American Soil

Of all the ailments which may blow out life's little candle, heart disease is the chief.
~ William Boyd, Surgical Pathology (1925).

When American capitalism dominates public health, as it does, and when treatment and diagnosis dominates rather than prevention, the effects are that we have one of the world's worse health records, compared to other industrial nations.
~ William H. Boyer, Myth America: Democracy vs. Capitalism (2003).

By amending the definition of "handicapped individual" to include not only those who are actually physically impaired, but also those who are regarded as impaired and who, as a result, are substantially limited in a major life activity, Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
~ William Joseph Brennan, Jr. (majority opinion), School Board Of Nassau County v. Arline, 480 U.S. 273 (1987).

The needs for full inclusion in universal health care for people with disabilities must be addressed rather than seeing these millions of people as less than human and an expendable burden.
~ William Bronston, in National Work Group on Disability and Transplantation Press Release (November 26, 2004). National Study Panel Cites Bias And Calls For Reform Of Policies And Practices Governing Transplants For People With Disabilities

Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill.
~ William S. Burroughs, in Spare Ass Annie And Other Tales (1993 album). Words of Advice for Young People

Sickness is often repulsive details not for weak stomaches.
~ William S. Burroughs, in Evergreen Review, Vol. 4 No. 11 (Jan/Feb 1960). Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness (1959)

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
~ William S. Burroughs

When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.
~ William S. Burroughs, Letter to Ginsberg (4 June 1952).

[Asthma is] a major health burden for society. ... And for people living in inner cities, it's a tremendous burden because of the severity of the disease and what is for many of them tremendous difficulty getting medical care.
~ William Busse, The Associated Press (25 October 2002). U. of Wis. to Study Asthma in Kids

Care so, I say, the flesh to feed and clothe
That thou harm not thy soul and body both.
~ William Byrd, from Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made Into Musicke Of Fiue Parts (1588). Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price

I danced my dance.
~ William Byrd II, in The Secret Diaries of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 (published 1941).

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
~ "Johnny" William Carson

I'm dealing with it the best I can and it is not causing me any major problems.
~ "Johnny" William Carson, The Associated Press (19 September 2002). Johnny Carson has emphysema, says he's fine

Americans are always looking for a magic bullet. They really should be watching their total diet and adding vitamin E to that. If you go and pig out at the local greasery, vitamin E is not going to help very much.
~ William Castelli, in The New York Times (26 May 1993). Personal Health

Health is a priceless blessing.
~ William Ellery Channing (D.D.), in The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses (1873). VI. Life A Divine Gift

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.
~ William Ellery Channing (D.D.), Lectures On The Elevation Of The Labouring Portion Of The Community (1840). Lecture II (delivered in Boston MA; 16 January 1840)

If you could tomorrow morning make water clean in the world, you would have done, in one fell swoop, the best thing you could have done for improving human health by improving environmental quality.
~ William C. Clark, Speech in Racine, WI (April 1988).

The hardest disease to cure that I know of is -- worry.
~ (William) Wilkie Collins, I Say No; Or, The Love-letter Answered (1884). Chapter XVI: Miss Jethro

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm a schizophrenic,
and so am I.
~ Billy Connolly

There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. ... I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge -- but not a sausage.
~ Billy Connolly, quoted in Ananova Ltd (8 November 2001). Billy Connolly draws a blank after colonic irrigation

What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?
~ Billy Connolly

Did you ever see the customers in [health-food stores]? They are pale, skinny people who shuffle around. They may live forever, but they look half dead. In a steak house, however, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
~ Bill Cosby, Time Flies (1987).

Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion,
Scarce can endure delay of execution,
Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my
Soul in a moment.
~ William Cowper, Published in the Autobiography (1816). Lines Written During a Period of Insanity (written in 1763)

Nature revives again; but a soul once slain lives no more.
~ William Cowper, in The Life of William Cowper (1833). Chapter IX

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
~ George William Curtis

A health to thee,
To him, to me
To all who beauty love and business hate!
~ Sir William Davenant, in The Man's the Master (1669).

I don't know but I am quite crazy. If I am, it is the drummer -- the invisible, ghostly, fiendish, infernal drummer -- who has made me so. Who wouldn't be crazy with that unearthly, horrible rubadub-dub?
~ John William DeForest, The Drummer Ghost (c. 1870).

The world aches for good listeners. Many doctors report they daily see patients who have nothing physically wrong with them. They merely need someone to listen to them.
~ William E. Diehl, The Monday Connection (1991).

Man has discovered that to kneel before God at least is more dignified than to lie down before a psychiatrist.
~ William A. Donaghy

If the greatest artwork in life is the creation of who you are, then it's good to apprentice to a good therapist.
~ David William Duchovny, Playboy Interview: David Duchovny (December 1998).

My view of therapy is that it helps you tell the story of your life to yourself as you're living it, in a way that makes you happier than you might be without it. I don't really believe it's a way of getting to the truth, and I don't believe it can heal you. It teaches you to seize the narrative of your life in a way that makes it better for you.
~ David William Duchovny, Playboy Interview: David Duchovny (December 1998).

[I]n health lies the chief secret of happiness.
~ William James "Will" Durant, The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey Of Human Life And Destiny (1929).

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
~ William Empson, from Collected Poems (1948). Missing Dates (1935)

After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
~ W.C. Fields

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.
~ W.C. Fields, The Temperance Lecture (1938 radio broadcast)

I believe I will dip my pink-and-white body in yon Roman tub. I feel a bit gritty after the affairs of the day.
~ W.C. Fields, My Little Chickadee (1940 screenplay)

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
~ W.C. Fields

There are simply quite a few people with mental illness, both chronic and situational, walking around the streets of America. Police are the first or the last call for assistance when people don't know who else to call. It's important that our police officers have the proper training to address whatever circumstances come up.
~ William Finney, Star Tribune St. Paul police chief pledges more training on dealing with mentally ill (16 October 2002)

As we work to improve our ability to protect the nation against various types of bioterrorist attacks -- a kind of stealth terrorism -- we must also determine whether such an assault would generate unique mental health issues and then develop means by which to address those unique needs
~ Bill Frist, Statement to the Senate Subcommittee on Public Health (26 September 2001). Psychological Trauma and Terrorism: Assuring that Americans Receive the Support They Need

Being prepared is the single best thing our public health infrastructure can do to minimize the impact of a potentially devastating bioterrorist attack.
~ Bill Frist (introducing a bill to strengthen protections from national health threats), Press Conference, Washington DC (29 November 2000).

Humor is contagious, laughter is infectious, and both are good for your health.
~ William F. Fry, Jr., MD

Focus is important. Focus on those parts of yourself that are working. Look at yourself as someone whose body is in the process of healing. Concentrate on the positive parts.
~ Will Garcia

[M]adness is a fiction lived in like a rented room.
~ William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (1976).

If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy.
~ Bill Gates, Remarks, Creating Digital Dividends Conference (18 October 2000).

[B]eauty will fade and perish, but personal cleanliness is practically undying, for it can be renewed whenever it discovers symptoms of decay.
~ William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert, The Sorcerer (1877). Act II

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
~ William Ewart Gladstone, Speech, Plumstead UK (30 November 1878).

In America, health is not regarded as a right, but as a commodity to be bought and sold just like anything else. There are places where an ambulance team will investigate your financial health before it will have any truck with your physical health.
~ William Golding, in Holiday magazine, Volume 34 (July 1963). Advice to a Nervous Visitor

Computerized health care could also help reduce the mistakes that are being made in the current system that are causing injuries to about 20% of patients. It has the potential for making health care far more convenient, less expensive, and more effective. The net effect should be to make all of the administrative details automatic, freeing physicians to focus on their patients' behavior, the source of most illnesses.
~ William E. Halal, World Future Society Future Times (Summer 2000). Forecasts of Emerging Technologies

We consume too much food, and too little pure air. We take too much medicine, and too little exercise.
~ William Whitty Hall, from Hall's Journal of Health (January 1854). Health is a Duty

Take a walk to refresh yourself with the open air, which inspired fresh doth exceedingly recreate the lungs, heart, and vital spirits.
~ William Harvey

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
~ William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America (1982).

It [Depression] is a sort of waking dream, which, though a person be otherwise in sound health, makes him feel symptoms of every disease; and, though innocent, yet fills his mind with the blackest horrors of guilt.
~ William Heberden, in Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases (1802).

The love of life, or fear of death, makes most men unwilling to allow that their constitution is breaking; and for this reason they are ready to impute to any other cause what in reality are the signs of approaching and unavoidable decay.
~ William Heberden, in Commentaries on the History and Cure of Diseases (1802). Chapter 9

[T]here is a disorder of the breast marked with strong and peculiar symptoms, considerable for the kind of danger belonging to it, and not extremely rare, which deserves to be mentioned more at length. The seat of it, and sense of strangling, and anxiety with which it is attended, may make it not improperly be called angina pectoris.
~ William Heberden (describing "angina pectoris" during a 1768 lecture in London), in Medical Transactions of the Royal College of Physicians, 2 (1772). Some Account of a Disorder of the Breast

First, know well the mosquito ...
~ William B. Herms, (1909).

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
~ William Ralph (Dean) Inge, quoted in the Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge (1927).

Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly.
~ William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). Lecture I: Religion and Neurology

[I]t is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.
~ William James (describing melancholy or depression), The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). Lectures VI and VII: The Sick Soul

Distorted shadows, you and I
Are witness everything's awry.
~ William T. James, Rhymes Afloat And Afield (1861). The Madman

I rise before the sun, and bathe after a gentle ride; my diet is light and sparing, and I go early to rest; yet the activity of my mind is too strong for my constitution, though naturally not infirm, and I must be satisfied with a valetudinarian state of health.
~ Sir William Jones, in Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones (1804). Letter to Dr. Patrick Russel (10 March 1784)

Obviously the safest thing to do is not to get pierced at all. But if you are determined to have your upper ear pierced, be sure the operator uses a disposable needle, not a gun, and be sure that he or she practices good hygiene and technique. Admittedly, it can be difficult for the consumer to really be assured of that.
~ William Keene, KSBW-TV (25 October 2002). Take Caution With Upper-Ear Piercings

People in the exercise field have always wondered why it doesn't affect total cholesterol and LDL. We always knew low levels of exercise are helpful. This helps solve that paradox.
~ Dr. William E. Kraus (on finding that exercise alters the number and size of the particles that carry cholesterol through the bloodstream), The Associated Press (6 November 2002). Study: Exercise Hits Cholesterol Risk

To raise the level of national health is one of the surest ways of raising the level of national happiness.
~ William Edward Hartpole (E.H.) Lecky, The Map of Life: Conduct and Character (1899). Chapter II

To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
~ William Londen

You convert the whole medical system into a giant jaws and the individual's only possible response is a yelp of protest.
~ William F. May

When you have heart disease, you know another blow is coming. The important thing is to be in the best shape you can to give yourself the best shot at surviving it.
~ Will McDonough, quoted in The Boston Globe (11 January 2003). Globe's McDonough dies at 67

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
~ Dr. William C. Menninger, in The New York Times (22 November 1957).

Some folk seem glad even to draw their breath.
~ William Morris, from The Earthly Paradise (1868-70). Bellerophon At Argos: Argument

Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypotized by any single detail of one's lfe.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

One is not free to become a Christian. One must be sick enough for it.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (1887).

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
~ William S. "Bill" Nye

Oh, what a blessing is health, and those who want it are the best able to feel its value!
~ William Orton

Healthy action in a body out of which you can get plenty of work is the first great asset in the race, the most important part, perhaps, of life's reserves.
~ William Osler, in St. Mary's Hospital Gazette (1907). The Reserves of Life

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
~ William Osler, quoted in Sir William Osler: Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings (1950).

A cold is both positive and negative; sometimes the Eyes have it and sometimes the Nose.
~ William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps

They should rather be objects of our greatest pity than condemnation as murtherers, damn'd Creatures and the like. For, tis possible even for Gods elect, having their Judgments and Reasons depraved by madness, deep melancholly, or [somehow] otherwise affected by Diseases of some sorts, to be their own executioners. ... Wherefore lets be slow to censure in such cases.
~ William Ramesey, from The Gentlemans Companion: or, a Character of True Nobility and Gentility (1672).

Hopefully for his sake, for his family, he's able to get his life cleaned up, whatever there is. I don't know his problem. I don't know his issues. I just know there's got to be a major problem for that to happen the day before the Super Bowl.
~ Bill Romanowski, The Boston Globe (28 January 2003). Relapse seen with Robbins

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?
~ William Saroyan, Short Drive, Sweet Chariot (1966).

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef, Native Wisdom for White Minds (1995).

Healthy people live with their world.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef, Native Wisdom for White Minds (1995).

In my experience, the chemical and/or ingestive addictions have been the first to be confronted both historically and individually. Then, in order for recovery to proceed, one must also confront the process addictions in which one is addicted to a process. These are addictions, for example, to work, money, sex, relationships, romance, religion, exercise -- in which the focus is not upon the ingestion of a chemical or other substance. ... We must understand them and treat them with as much concern as we do ingestive addictions.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef, Escape From Intimacy: Untangling the "Love" Addictions; Sex, Romance, Relationships (1989).

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef, Native Wisdom for White Minds (1995).

We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef, Escape From Intimacy: Untangling the "Love" Addictions; Sex, Romance, Relationships (1989).

One of the best ways to keep your brain active is by solving crossword puzzles, because crosswords test so many parts of the brain -- your vocabulary, your memory, your mental flexibility, sometimes even your sense of humor. Solving a crossword is the mental equivalent of going to the gym and working out on all the machines.
~ Will Shortz, Commencement Address at Indiana University, Bloomington IN (3 May 2008).

Come, madam wife, sit by my side
and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
~ William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew. Introduction, scene ii

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliances are relieved,
Or not at all.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act IV, scene ii

Like madness is the glory of this life.
~ William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens. Act I, scene ii

Now, good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth. Act III, scene iv

That he's mad, 'tis true 'tis true 'tis pity;
And pity 'tis, 'tis true.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act II, scene ii

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
~ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. Act I, scene i

'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Act IV, scene ii

[W]e are not ourselves
When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear. Act II, scene iv

Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
Making both it unable for itself,
And dispossessing all my other parts
Of necessary fitness?
~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. Act II, scene iv

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
~ William Shenstone, in Works in Verse and Prose, Vol. II (1764). Essays on Men, Manners, and Things. On Taste

Do your pores
Keep open doors?
~ William Gilmore Simms, Egeria: Or, Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods and Wayside (1853).

They want to experiment on our people. Those vaccinations can cause all kind of harm. Until I see the Supreme Court and the Congress taking those vaccinations, I don't want to them to be giving it to us.
~ William M. Smith, in The New York Times (25 December 2001). Union Head Objects to Anthrax Vaccine Program

We're simply asking the post office to close the building and make sure it's safe. Test everybody and tell us they haven't been exposed. If that's not done, we shouldn't be in that building.
~ William M. Smith, The Associated Press (30 October 2001). NY Woman Tests for Inhaled Anthrax

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
~ Wilhelm Stekhel, The Depths of the Soul (1921).

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.
~ William H. Stewart

Must we wait until we prove every link in the chain of causation? ... In protecting health, absolute proof comes late. To wait for it is to invite disaster or to prolong suffering unnecessarily. I submit that those things within man's power to control which impact upon the individual in a negative way, which infringe upon his sense of integrity, and interrupt his pursuit of fulfillment, are hazards to public health.
~ William H. Stewart, Address to the Conference on Noise as a Public Health Hazard, Washington, D.C. (1969).

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.
~ William H. Stewart, in Environmental Science and Technology (February 1968).

We're trying to get the message out that when a doctor sees a patient with asthma, the doctor needs to ask [the patient] about stuffy nose and blowing and drainage and sneezing.
~ Dr. William Storms, HealthScoutNews Allergy-Asthma Link Nothing to Sneeze At (26 December 2001)

The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.
~ William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990).

The weather of depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.
~ William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (1990).

Health is the soul that animates all enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless, if not dead, without it.
~ Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, in Miscellanea, the Third Part (1701). II. An Essay Upon Health and Long Life

In the course of common life, a man must either often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick; and the choice seems left to everyone as he likes.
~ Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, in Miscellanea, the Third Part (1701). II. An Essay Upon Health and Long Life

Various complicating factors make it difficult to document whether level of education is related to dementia. Education level is often associated with other possible influences, such as access to medical care, occupational and recreational activities, nutrition, income, alcohol intake and smoking. Because it is difficult to separate educational level from these factors, we should not point to education achievement alone as the only important variable.
~ William Thies, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association News Release (9 July 2000). Education May Protect Against Alzheimer's Disease and Other Forms of Dementia

Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
~ William E. "Bill" Vaughan

Health -- good health -- is necessary that a man may make the most of life; and work out what he is, and what he possesses, and what he knows to the most advantage.
~ William Walters, Views of Life: Being Nine Lectures (1873). Lecture II. The Prospects of Life

Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.
You cannot charm, or interest, or please
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from Poems of Power (1901). Speech

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
~ Billy Wilder

Younger people especially want more healthful food, and you don't need as much fat to prepare chicken. It's also more interesting because you can prepare it so many different ways.
~ Charles E. (Chuck) Williams, in Woman's Day magazine (1 September 2003). Close Up with Chuck Williams

I must tell you it's an illusion that you can bargain away all risk of serious illness. I can also tell you that there's something worse than getting sick. The worst thing, the one most worth regretting, would be to surrender to fear the best possibilities of the life you have.
~ Marjorie Williams, The Washington Post (20 November 2002). Minimizing Menopause

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.
~ Ricky Williams, The San Francisco Chronicle (21 November 2004). NFL dropout Ricky Williams chilling in Sierra: He's been found studying the healing arts

The problem wasn't with the city, the sport, my teammates or my coach, even though I blamed all of them at one time or another. The problem was with me. But I didn't realize it back then because I hadn't been told that there was a clinical reason -- social anxiety disorder -- for everything odd I was feeling, everything from the depression to the shyness. I didn't understand that some of the things that were holding me back were chemical.
~ Ricky Williams, ESPN The Magazine (16 September 2002). Redemption Song

And I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.
~ Robin Williams, Tribune Media Services (14 July 2002). Williams returns to live comedy for HBO

Always nutrition can be improved, and this improvement is the chief objective of nutritional study.
~ Roger J. Williams, Ph.D., D.Sc., The Advancement of Nutrition (1982).

That malnutrition, unbalanced or inadequate nutrition, at the cellular level should be thought of as a major cause of human disease seems crystal clear to me. It is the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from the facts produced by decades of biochemical research.
~ Roger J. Williams, Ph.D., D.Sc.

He was meddling too much in my private life.
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
~ Thomas Lanier ("Tennessee") Williams, (on the psychological condition of his characters), in New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1958).

Okay, everyone, now inhale ... and then dehale!
~ Maury Wills

Depression is unfocused self-pity.
~ Bill Wilson

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
~ Earl Wilson

I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
~ Bill Withers

Sweet babe! They say that I am mad,
But nay, my heart is far too glad;
And I am happy when I sing
Full many a sad and doleful thing:
Then, lovely baby, do not fear!
~ William Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads (1798). The Mad Mother

"Time to put off the world and go somewhere
And find my health again in the sea air,"
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
"And make my soul before my pate is bare."
~ William Butler Yeats, from Responsibilities (1914). Beggar to Beggar cried

Would you with ease at once be cur'd
Of all the ill you've long endur'd,
Consult your glass and me.
~ Sir William Yonge