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.

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

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

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

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

I sell escapism.

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

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

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 a nice night for an evening.

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

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

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

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

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.

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.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

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.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

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.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

It is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

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

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

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I like to take it easy.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I love being busy.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.