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

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

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

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

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

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.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

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.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

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.

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.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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?

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

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 have never given adoration to any body except myself.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I love the sea.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

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.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

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

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

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

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

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 don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I’ve read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it’s the same.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

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.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

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.