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.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Every day I pray about all I do.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

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

The first wealth is health.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

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

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.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

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.

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

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

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

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

He that rises late must trot all day.

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.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

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.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

Mind over mattress.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

I just don’t have time to get old!

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

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.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.