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

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

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

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

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.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

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.

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

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

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.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

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

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

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

An index is a great leveller.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I love the sea.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

The first wealth is health.

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

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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

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

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.