“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”
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Sam Harris, Taming the Mind http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/taming-the-mind (April 12, 2014)
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Context: Your life doesn't get any better than your mind is: You might have wonderful friends, perfect health, a great career, and everything else you want, and you can still be miserable. The converse is also true: There are people who basically have nothing—who live in circumstances that you and I would do more or less anything to avoid—who are happier than we tend to be because of the character of their minds. Unfortunately, one glimpse of this truth is never enough. We have to be continually reminded of it.

Town hall meeting in Lexington, 2009-11
2000s

[29 June 2007, http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/29/8123/83327, "Why I Declined My Congressional Health Coverage", Daily Kos, 2007-07-21]
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"The Fatal Flaw of Socialized Health Care" https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-fatal-flaw-of-socialized-health-care_2815015.html
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Ellen on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
As quoted in Eyewitness to Power (2001) by David Gergen.