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.

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.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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

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

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.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

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

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

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

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

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.

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.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I like to let things breathe.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

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 feel exhausted if I teach too long.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I’m tender on the inside.

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

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

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 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.

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

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

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

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

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.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

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

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

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

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with 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.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

The first wealth is health.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.