I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

Life is precious.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.