Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

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

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

I love the sea.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Each day provides its own gifts.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

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.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

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

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

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.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

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.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

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.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

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

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

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

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 is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

I restore myself when I’m alone.