I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I have little bones.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

Life well spent is long.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I think hygiene is so important.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Touring is hard on the body.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

I don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.