I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

I have no trouble sleeping.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Sleep is the best meditation.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It’s always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It’s just a special place.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I like to let things breathe.