I have no trouble sleeping.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I love the sea.

I like to let things breathe.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

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

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

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

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

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.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

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 spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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.

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

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Going home helps the content.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

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

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

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

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.

Mind over mattress.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

I sell escapism.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

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.

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.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

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

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.