I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

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.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

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.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

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

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

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

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

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

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

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

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

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

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’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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 worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

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.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

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.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.