Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

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

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.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

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

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

I have no trouble sleeping.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I hid myself in food.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Sleep is the best meditation.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

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

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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.

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

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.

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

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

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.

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

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

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

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

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

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

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

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Touring is hard on the body.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.