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

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

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.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I don’t like being alone.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

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.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

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

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

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.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

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

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

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.

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.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

I love travelling full stop – so while I’ve had some harrowing instances, I never look at them negatively. Memories are made when you’re travelling – not when you’re chained to your desk.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.