I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Delay is preferable to error.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

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.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

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

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

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.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

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.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

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

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

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

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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.

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.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.