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You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

You can't take good health for granted.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

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

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.