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.

There is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

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

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

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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

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

Fatigue is the best pillow.

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.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

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.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it’s being with my kids.

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

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

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

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.

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.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

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

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

What a nice night for an evening.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

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.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

I first found delight in the Sabbath many years ago when, as a busy surgeon, I knew that the Sabbath became a day for personal healing. By the end of each week, my hands were sore from repeatedly scrubbing them with soap, water, and a bristle brush. I also needed a breather from the burden of a demanding profession.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I became a beach bum.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

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 do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

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.

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

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

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

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.