Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

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

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Simplify, simplify.

A lot of people don’t enjoy their jobs, and it’s one of the main things we like to complain about.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Confine yourself to the present.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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

Precaution is better than cure.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I don’t have many sad days.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

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

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.