No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

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

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.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Never get out of bed before noon.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

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

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I’m chasing perfection.

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.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

What a nice night for an evening.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

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.

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.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

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

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Meditation helps me to calm down.