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.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Sleep is the best meditation.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

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

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

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

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

I love the sea.

I sell escapism.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

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.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

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

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Mind over mattress.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

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.

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 know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

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

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.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I like to let things breathe.

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

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

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.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

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.

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.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

We use work to numb out. We can’t turn off our machines because we’re afraid we’re going to miss something.

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 guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don’t have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.

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

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.