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

I became a beach bum.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

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.

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.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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.

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.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

Mind over mattress.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

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

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

I have a garden in my backyard that’s completely organic, which I’m very proud of.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

Never get out of bed before noon.

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.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

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

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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.

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

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

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

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

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

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it’s in the blood.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I sell escapism.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

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.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.