Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

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.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Touring is hard on the body.

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

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

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.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Mind over mattress.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

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.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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

The first wealth is health.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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?

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.