We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

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.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

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

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hatred is self-punishment.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

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.‘

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

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

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

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

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

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

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.