During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

I spend a lot of time reading.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

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.

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

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I’m not a health freak. I just work out every day.

Working out anchors my day.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

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

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I sell escapism.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

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

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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.

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

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

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 can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.