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

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.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I will never retire unless I have to.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Going home helps the content.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

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

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

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.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It’s always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It’s just a special place.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

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

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.

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.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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.

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

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.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

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.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

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

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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

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.

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

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

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

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

I have no trouble sleeping.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.